Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations were performed to predict the interference drag produced by two streamlined struts intersecting at various angles in transonic flow since no relevant experimental data are available for use in design studies. The one-equation Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model was employed in a RANS formulation assuming fully-turbulent flow. Selected cases were run ...

The problem of a uniform transverse flow past a prolate spheroid of arbitrary aspect ratio a t low Reynolds numbers has been analysed by the method of matched asymptotic expansions. The solution is found to depend on two Reynolds numbers, one based on the semi-minor axis b, Rb = Ublv, and the other on the semi-major axis a, Ra = Ualv (U being the free-stream velocity at infinity, which is perpe...

INTRODUCTION The drag (D) of seven (7) male swimmers wearing five (5) swimsuits was investigated. METHODS The drag was measured during passive surface tows at speeds from 0.2 up to 2.2 m x s and during starts and push-offs. The swimsuits varied in body coverage from shoulder-to-ankle (SA), shoulder-to-knee (SK), waist-to-ankle (WA) and waist-to-knee (WK) and briefs (CS). RESULTS Differences...

In the present study, a computational investigation was carried out to understand the influence of flexibility on the aerodynamic performance of a hovering wing. A flexible, two-dimensional, two-link model moving within a viscous fluid was considered. The Navier-Stokes equations governing the fluid dynamics were solved together with the equations governing the structural dynamics by using a str...

A polynomial is determined by its roots and its leading coefficient. If you set the roots in motion, the critical points will move too. Using only tools from the undergraduate curriculum, we find an inverse square law that determines the velocities of the critical points in terms of the positions and velocities of the roots. As corollaries we get the Polynomial Root Dragging Theorem and the Pol...

A simple pressure-based feedback control strategy for wall-transpiration control of incompressible unsteady two-dimensional channel flow was recently investigated by Aamo, Krstic & Bewley (2003). Nonlinear two-dimensional channel flow simulations which implemented this control strategy resulted in flow transients with instantaneous drag far lower than that of the corresponding laminar flow. The...

The inlet is designed to compress the air and increase static pressure. In present work, analyses have been carried out using 2D axisymmetric Reynolds averaged Navier Stokes equations (RANS) capture flow physics of shock structure produced by multi-row disk device at different semi-cone angles. work involves numerical studies on over disk. Drag coefficient, pressure variation, vortex behavior w...

The US Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate (AFDD), the French Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) are working under the United States/France Memorandum of Agreement on Helicopter Aeromechanics to study rotorcraft aeromechanics issues of interest to both nations. As a task under this agreement, a comparative study of the D...