Effect of plasma-based control on low-reynolds-number flapping airfoil performance

AIAA Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 131-147

  Rizzetta, Donald P ^a   Visbal, Miguel R ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; AIR VEHICLE; AIRFOIL SECTION; BODY FORCES; CHORD-BASED REYNOLDS NUMBER; DISCHARGE PLASMA; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLAPPING AIRFOILS; FLAPPING MOTION; GRID RESOLUTION; HIGH FIDELITY; LIFT-TO-DRAG RATIO; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; OSCILLATORY MOTION; PARALLEL COMPUTING PLATFORM; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; PLASMA ACTUATION; PLASMA-INDUCED; SIMULATION APPROACH; SOURCE TERMS; TIME MARCHING; TRANSITIONAL FLOW; UNSTEADY MOTION; WING SECTION;

ANGLE OF ATTACK INDICATORS; AUTOMOBILE BODIES; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; DRAG; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FLOW CONTROL; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; LIFT DRAG RATIO; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMAS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 84555189709     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.J051182     Document Type: Article

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