This paper presents a calculation method for the 3-D unsteady cavitating hydrofoil problem. The method is based on a simple surface panel method “SQCM” which satisfies easily the Kutta condition even in the unsteady problem. This method is applied to the Wagner problem, heaving hydrofoil and the hydrofoil in sinusoidal gust. We show some calculated results for partially cavitating and supercavi...

Abstract. Numerical investigations of fluid structure interaction between unsteady flow and vibrating liner in a combustion chamber are undertaken. The computational study consist of two approaches. Firstly, a partioned procedure consists of coupling the LES code AVBP for combustion modelling with the FEM code CaluliX for structural dynamic analysis. The CFD code CFX together with the FEM Ansys...

The theory for criticality presented in Part 1 is extended to the unsteady problem, and a new formulation of the Benjamin–Feir instability for Stokes waves in finite depth coupled to a mean flow, which takes the criticality matrix as an organizing centre, is presented. The generation of unsteady dark solitary waves at points of stability changes and their connection with the steady dark solitar...

We give an algorithmic introduction to Lagrangian coherent structures (LCSs) using a newly developed computational engine, LCS Tool. LCSs are most repelling, attracting and shearing material lines that form the centrepieces of observed tracer patterns in two-dimensional unsteady dynamical systems. LCS Tool implements the latest geodesic theory of LCSs for two-dimensional flows, uncovering key t...

A novel method to estimate unsteady aerodynamic force coefficients from pointwise velocity measurements is presented. The methodology is based on a resolvent-based reducedorder model which requires the mean flow to obtain physical flow structures and pointwise measurement to calibrate their amplitudes. A computationally-affordable time-stepping methodology to obtain resolvent modes in non-trivi...

This research describes aerodynamic characteristics of small-scale wind turbine blade, called Archimedes spiral wind turbine blade. Numerical approaches on the prediction of aerodynamic performance of the blade have been conducted. Both steady and unsteady state numerical simulations using ANSYS CFX are performed on the several cases of rotating speeds. Large scale tip vortex is captured and gr...

A new method for constructing reduced-order models (ROM) of unsteady small-disturbance  ows is presented. The reduced-order models are constructed using basis vectors determined from the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) of an ensemble of small-disturbance frequency-domain solutions. Each of the individual frequencydomain solutions is computed using an efŽ cient time-linearized  ow solver...

Motivated by our interest in unsteady aerodynamics of insect flight, we devise a computational tool to solve the Navier–Stokes equation around a two-dimensional moving wing, which mimics biological locomotion. The focus of the present work is frequency selection in forward flapping flight. We investigate the time scales associated with the shedding of the trailingand leading-edge vortices, as w...