Viscous-inviscid analysis of transonic and low Reynolds number airfoils

Application of viscous-inviscid interaction methods to transonic turbulent flows

Quasi-Simultaneous Viscous-Inviscid Interaction for Transonic Airfoil Flow

Following Prandtl, a viscous-inviscid interaction (VII) method is presented, where the flow field is divided into a viscous shear layer and an inviscid outer region. Their coupling is performed with the quasi-simultaneous approach, making use of an appropriately chosen interaction law. Firstly, an engineering example of transonic airfoil flow is presented, in which the interaction law is based ...

The Effects of Shape Parameterization on the Efficiency of Evolutionary Design Optimization for Viscous Transonic Airfoils

The effect of airfoil shape parameterization on optimum design and its influence on the convergence of the evolutionary optimization process is presented. Three popular airfoil parametric methods including PARSEC, Sobieczky and B-Spline (Bezier curve) are studied and their efficiency and results are compared with those of a new method. The new method takes into consideration the characteristics...

Low-Reynolds-number swimming in viscous two-phase fluids.

The fluid media surrounding many microorganisms are often mixtures of multiple materials with very different physical properties. The composition and rheology of the mixture may strongly affect the related locomotive behaviors. We study the classical Taylor's swimming sheet problem within a two-fluid model, which consists of two intermixed viscous fluids with different viscosities, with both nu...

Mass Transfer in the Hypersonic Low Reynolds Number Viscous Layer

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