Tailoring Unsteady Airfoil Flow and Force Dynamics using Inverse Aerodynamic Approaches
Leveraging the low-order aerodynamic models developed to predict flowfield and loads on airfoils undergoing arbitrary motions, the current research thrust focuses on developing physics-informed inverse aerodynamic models to obtain desirable force and moment profiles for unsteady airfoils by tailoring the vortex characteristics (instant of shedding, shedding duration, strength, etc.).
Publications:
- Babu, A. V. S., Narsipur, S., and Gopalarathnam, A. (2024) "Lift Tailoring on Unsteady Airfoils with Leading-Edge Vortex Shedding Using an Inverse Aerodynamic Approach," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 36, 053108. | doi: 10.1063/5.0208567
- Babu, A. V. S., Narsipur, S., Bryant, M., and Gopalarathnam, A. (2022) "Leading-Edge-Vortex Tailoring on Unsteady Airfoils Using an Inverse Aerodynamic Approach," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 34, 057107. | Featured article | doi: 10.1063/5.0090328
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