ASWING is a program for the prediction of static and quasi-static loads and deformations of aircraft with flexible high aspect ratio surfaces and fuselage beams. The key features of the overall structural/aerodynamic model are sketched in Figure 1. A fully nonlinear Bernoulli-Euler beam representation is used for all the surface and fuselage structures, and an enhanced lifting-line representati...

We propose a plasma experiment to be used to investigate fundamental properties of astrophysical dynamos. The highly conducting, fast flowing plasma will allow experimenters to explore the high-magnetic-Reynolds-number regime. The plasma is confined using a ring-cusp strategy and subject to a toroidal differentially rotating outer boundary condition. As proof of principle, we present magnetohyd...

We present a new finite difference code for modeling three-dimensional thermal convection in a spherical shell using the “cubed sphere” method of Ronchi et al. [1]. The equation of motion is solved using a poloidal potential formulation for an iso-viscous, infinite Prandtl number fluid on a finite difference grid and advective transport is implemented using the 2nd-order MPDATA scheme of Smolar...

Linear stability analysis of a dielectric fluid confined in a cylindrical annulus of infinite length is performed under microgravity conditions. A radial temperature gradient and a high alternating electric field imposed over the gap induce an effective gravity that can lead to a thermal convection even in the absence of the terrestrial gravity. The linearized governing equations are discretize...