Title of dissertation: COMPREHENSIVE AEROELASTIC ANALYSIS OF HELICOPTER ROTOR WITH TRAILING-EDGE FLAP FOR PRIMARY CONTROL AND VIBRATION CONTROL Jinwei Shen, Doctor of Philosophy, 2003 Dissertation directed by: Professor Inderjit Chopra Department of Aerospace Engineering A comprehensive aeroelastic analytical model of helicopter rotors with trailingedge flaps for primary and vibration controls ...

High-incidence lift generation via flow reattachment is studied. Different reattachment mechanisms are distinguished, with dynamic manoeuvres and tip vortex downwash being separate mechanisms. We focus on the latter mechanism, which is strictly available to finite wings, and isolate it by considering steadily translating wings. The tip vortex downwash provides a smoother merging of the flow at ...

Flow structures and hydrodynamic performance of high-speed surface-piercing hydrofoils were studied by numerical simulation, with an emphasis on the interaction mechanism between supercavitation natural ventilation. Compared available experimental data, method could predict cavitation ventilation well. The simulation results show that flow over hydrofoil blunt trailing edge is more conducive to...

In the present study, a large number of acoustic simulations are carried out for a low noise airfoil with different Trailing Edge Serrations (TES). The Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings (FWH) acoustic analogy is used for noise prediction at trailing edge. The acoustic solver is running on the platform of our in-house incompressible flow solver EllipSys3D. The flow solution is first obtained from the Lar...

Miniflaps at the trailing edges of airfoils (e.g., Gurney flaps or divergent trailing edges) change the Kutta condition and thus produce higher lift. Unfortunately, however, the drag is also increased due to the flow separation downstream of this particular type of trailing edge. Therefore, the trade-off between beneficial and detrimental effects is considered in this paper. Various aspects of ...

This work describes the effects of waves on hydroelastic response a hydrofoil in fully wetted and ventilated flows. In absence vaporous cavitation (described Part 2 this paper series), shallow long-period non-breaking delayed ventilation inception because velocity fluctuations prevent formation stably separated region flow at foil's leading edge. Aerated von Kármán vortex shedding occurred from...

This paper presents an experimental study of the effect of trailing edge serrations on airfoil instability noise. Detailed aeroacoustic measurements are presented of the noise radiated by an NACA-0012 airfoil with trailing edge serrations in a low to moderate speed flow under acoustical free field conditions. The existence of a separated boundary layer near the trailing edge of the airfoil at a...

This study analyzes signaling events initiated through binding of the leukocyte integrin LFA-1 to ICAM-1, which leads to T cell attachment, polarization and random migration. These events are critically dependent on dynamic changes in the acto-myosin cytoskeleton under the regulation of myosin light chain kinase and ROCK (Rho kinase). A key finding is that the activity of these two kinases is s...

Mammalian cells develop a polarized morphology and migrate directionally into a wound in a monolayer culture. To understand how microtubules contribute to these processes, we used GFP-tubulin to measure dynamic instability and GFP-EB1, a protein that marks microtubule plus-ends, to measure microtubule growth events at the centrosome and cell periphery. Growth events at the centrosome, or nuclea...