Vortical Flow and Fluiddynamic Characteristics of an Oscillating Bluff Body

Large Eddy Simulation of an Oscillating Flame in Turbulent Flow around a Bluff Body

The present research aims at providing a reliable model for the simulation of oscillating flames which are often discovered in industrial gas turbine combustors operating at lean premixed conditions. The paper presents a Large Eddy Simulation of an oscillating bluff-body stabilised flame with a probability density function model of the subfilter scale interaction. The results show good overall ...

Plasma Actuators for Bluff Body Flow Control

The aerodynamic plasma actuators have shown to be efficient flow control devices in various applications. In this study the results of flow control experiments utilizing single dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators to control flow separation and unsteady vortex shedding from a circular cylinder in cross-flow are reported. This work is motivated by the need to reduce landing gear noise f...

Vortical Patterns in the Wake of an Oscillating Airfoil

Bluff Body Flow Separation Control using Surface Dielectric Barrier Discharges

Surface dielectric barrier discharges (DBDs) are used to delay flow separation behind a bluff body in atmospheric pressure air. The bluff body is made by connecting a flat plate to a half cylinder tangentially as a round-cornered trailing edge. Four DBD plasma actuators are attached along the surface of the half cylinder. Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is utilized for studying the velocity fi...

Numerical and Physical Modeling of Bluff body Flow and Dispersion in Urban Street Canyons

To develop reliable computer models for the bluff body flow and transport of pollutants or chemical and biological (CB) agents in urban environments requires accurate measurements of the basic flow fields for carefully controlled, well-known conditions. Fluid modeling in an Industrial Wind Tunnel provides an opportunity to produce accurate simulations of the bluff body flow and transport of urb...