Aerodynamics & Aeroacoustics

Understanding the motion of air flow around an object enables the calculation of forces and moments acting on it.  Understanding aerodynamics is important when designing and constructing buildings, bridges, and wind turbines to ensure strength and resistance to wind forces.  For vehicles and aircraft, aerodynamics is critical in minimizing fuel consumption and emissions.

Aerodynamics provides vital information when understanding atmospheric and weather phenomena. Further consideration must be given to the importance of internal aerodynamics in flows through ducts, pipes, engine cylinders, and much more.

Aeroacoustics is the study of noise generated either by turbulent fluid motion or aerodynamic forces interacting with surfaces and is essential to minimize vibrations and noise.

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Aerodynamics & Aeroacoustics Applications

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Dust Transport on Mars

Simulation of the wind driven transport of dust and sand on Mars measured by a Dantec 2D LDA – LDV system
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Flow Investigation behind Delta Winglet Vortex Generators by Stereo PIV

Enhanced turbulent mixing is essential to intensify convective heat transfer in various industrial devices to improve performance and energy efficiency. Vortex generators (VGs) are passive f[…]
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Triple Hotwire for Furthering Flat Surface Turbulent Heat Convection

Enhancing heat transfer can improve the performance of many systems. This is also the case with the promising solar photovoltaic (PV) system. The percentage energy conversion efficiency incr[…]
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Measurement of wall shear stress with a 55R45 sensor

This report describes and characterizes the mounting, operation, and behaviour of the wall shear stress sensor 55R45 applied to the flow in a turbulent boundary layer at moderate Reynolds nu[…]
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Flow Discharge Vectoring using a Miniature Fluidic Actuator

Particle Image Velocimetry was used to measure the centerplane velocities in the near-field of a subsonic jet with an exit diameter of 3.81 cm, which was controlled using single and dual flu[…]
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Windshield velocity distribution measurements using low powered 2D FlowLite

In the automotive industry, customer clinics and surveys have revealed the importance to the customer of good demist/defrost performance in their vehicle. The expectation is for the ice on[…]
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Flow Field Mapping With Stereoscopic PIV Around A Full-Scale Car

While obtaining full-scale PIV measurements in an airflow has always been a dream of many, the research team at Volkswagen AG has used today’s available technology and integrated the compone[…]
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Wind Conditions Along An Aircraft’s Flight Path

A 3-D hot-wire anemometer has been used to investigate the wind conditions that led to an aircraft crash in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic in 1996. The aircraft was approaching an a[…]
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Velocity Measurements in Transonic Turbomachinery Blade Cascade Flow

Increasing turbine inlet temperature, evolved for efficiency improvement, has resulted in a need for full-coverage film cooling for the first turbine blade and vane. In this project, the pos[…]
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3D LDA Measurements of a Jet in Crossflow on an Effusion-Cooled Plate

There is a general desire to decrease the specific fuel consumption and to increase the thrust/weight ratio of gas turbines, which calls for higher turbine inlet temperatures. Thus there is […]
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LDA measurements on wing/engine section of an Airbus A380

Aircraft manufacturers are especially interested in reducing aircraft drag in order to reduce fuel consumption and optimize engine performance. This enables the aircraft to perform a steeper[…]
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Measuring trailing vortices behind an Airbus

During take-off and landing, powerful vortices are created behind an aircraft. Such vortices result from pressure differences between the upper and lower surfaces of the wing whenever a wing[…]
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PIV Measurements on a Delta Wing with Periodic Blowing and Suction

The mechanism by which periodic blowing and suction improves lift and stall angle of a 70 degree sweep delta wing is investigated in water tunnel experiments using PIV measurements. Periodic[…]
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Benchmark Data for Validation of CFD Codes Used to Simulate NASA Space Shuttle Main Engine Induced Flow at Liftoff

Dantec Dynamics was contracted to support NASA in providing benchmark data for validation of CFD codes used to simulate Space Shuttle main engine induced flow at liftoff. With the Space Shut[…]
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