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Research in Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics
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Affiliated Faculty:
Dave Caughey,
Al George,
Sid Leibovich,
Charles Williamson
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Current research in aerodynamics and aeroacoustics focus on the effects of fluid flow on aircraft
and aircraft performance and stability.
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Apparatus to measure the effects of unconventional fin shapes on aerodynamics of cooling.
(Courtesy Al George)
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Some of our aerodynamic work has focused on vortex-pair interactions.
Vortex pair instabilities are important to the break-up of aircraft trailing vortices,
which are a hazard to other maneuvering aircraft.
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Current research is also focused on aerodynamic cooling of automotive and aerospace engines.
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Instrumented engine cylinders and heads used to study aerodynamics and heat transfer to air-cooled engines.
(Courtesy Al George)
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Mach number contours for flow past a symmetric airfoil at zero incidence. This
particular airfoil shape, devised by Professor M. Hafez (UC-Davis), allows non-symmetrical
solutions for these symmetric boundary conditions,
the stability of which have been verified by performing time-accurate, unsteady computations.
(Courtesy Dave Caughey)
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