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EXPERIMENTS IN FLUIDS
Volume 60, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-019-2815-1
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- Sino-German Center
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [TR 194/55-1]
- German-American Fulbright Commission
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The generation of smooth, symmetric, and periodic gust disturbances in an experimental context is demonstrated using a single oscillating airfoil. A pitching and plunging symmetric airfoil is suggested as a simpler alternative to existing gust-generation methods. The Theodorsen theory of unsteady aerodynamics is used as an analytical tool to dictate the kinematics necessary to produce periodic gusts with controlled waveform shape downstream of the airfoil. These analytic predictions improve the symmetry of fluctuations in the vertical velocity induced by the airfoil, as well as minimize the influence of vorticity shed by the oscillating airfoil. The apparatus is shown to produce smooth, symmetric gusts with high amplitudes and reduced frequencies compared to other gust-generation mechanisms in the literature. Furthermore, the control of downstream flow properties by airfoil motion kinematics has applications in experimental aerodynamics, the design of rotorcraft and light aerial vehicles, and biological propulsion. [GRAPHICS] .
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