Numerical and experimental study of wingtip vortices of straight and deformed wings and their active control

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Numerical and experimental study of wingtip vortices of straight and deformed wings and their active control

The current project deals with a fundamental topic in fluid mechanics: the structure, dynamics and instabilities of wingtip vortices. Experimental and numerical research will be performed on straight and deformed wings that allow an in-depth analysis of physical mechanisms.

The main objective of this project is to propose and design a control system to reduce the intensity of the trailing vortices created by wing models with and without deformation. The attained knowledge by the research team in the recent past suggests that the axial injection theoretically produces huge gains of energy due to non-normal amplification. This injection could be applied to any flight condition and thus it would act into wings with different degree of deformation. The main idea is to develop an injection system and prove its overall efficiency.