Micro Adaptive Flow Control

Abstract

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Micro Adaptive Flow Control program is described using a series of illustrative examples. Adaptive flow control is defined to be the active modification of aerodynamic flows using small-time dependent actuators in judiciously chosen locations. A diverse number of large-scale applications are described in which micro adaptive flow control has a substantial overall system benefit.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA547450

Entities

People

  • Richard Wlezien

Organizations

  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Actuators
  • Aerodynamic Characteristics
  • Aircrafts
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Boundary Layer Flow
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Control Systems
  • Flow
  • Flow Separation
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Hypervelocity Flow
  • Mach Number
  • Military Aircraft
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Fluid Dynamics.