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Lignarolo, L. (author), Ragni, D. (author), Simao Ferreira, C.J. (author), Van Bussel, G.J.W. (author)The actuator disc (AD) model is commonly used to simplify the simulation of horizontal-axis wind-turbine aerodynamics. The limitations of this approach in reproducing the wake losses in wind farm simulations have been proven by a previous research. The present study is aimed at providing an experimental analysis of the near-wake turbulent flow...journal article 2016
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Schneiders, J.F.G. (author), Pröbsting, S. (author), Dwight, R.P. (author), Van Oudheusden, B.W. (author), Scarano, F. (author)A method is proposed to determine the instantaneous pressure field from a single tomographic PIV velocity snapshot and is applied to a flat-plate turbulent boundary layer. The main concept behind the single-snapshot pressure evaluation method is to approximate the flow acceleration using the vorticity transport equation. The vorticity field...journal article 2016
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Schneiders, J.F.G. (author), Pröbsting, S. (author), Dwight, R.P. (author), Van Oudheusden, B.W. (author), Scarano, F. (author)A method is proposed to determine the instantaneous pressure field from a single tomographic PIV velocity snapshot and is applied to a flat-plate turbulent boundary layer. The main concept behind the single-snapshot pressure evaluation method is to approximate the flow acceleration using the vorticity transport equation. The vorticity field...journal article 2016
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Schneiders, J.F.G. (author), Pröbsting, S. (author), Dwight, R.P. (author), Van Oudheusden, B.W. (author), Scarano, F. (author)A method is proposed to determine the instantaneous pressure field from a single tomographic PIV velocity snapshot and is applied to a flat-plate turbulent boundary layer. The main concept behind the single-snapshot pressure evaluation method is to approximate the flow acceleration using the vorticity transport equation. The vorticity field...journal article 2016
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Giyanani, A.H. (author), Bierbooms, W.A.A.M. (author), Van Bussel, G.J.W. (author)Remote sensing of the atmospheric variables with the use of Lidar is a relatively new technology field for wind resource assessment in wind energy. A review of the draft version of an international guideline (CD IEC 61400-12-1 Ed.2) used for wind energy purposes is performed and some extra atmospheric variables are taken into account for proper...journal article 2015
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Deng, S. (author), Xiao, T. (author), Van Oudheusden, B.W. (author), Bijl, H. (author)A numerical investigation is performed to address the flexing effect on the propulsion performance of flapping wing particularly on the counter-flapping wings of the biplane configuration. A Reynolds number of 10,000 is considered in the present study which corresponds to the flight regime of most existing flapping wing micro air vehicles. The...journal article 2015
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Azijli, I. (author), Dwight, R.P. (author)Volumetric velocity measurements of incompressible flows contain spurious divergence due to measurement noise, despite mass conservation dictating that the velocity field must be divergence-free (solenoidal). We investigate the use of Gaussian process regression to filter spurious divergence, returning analytically solenoidal velocity fields. We...journal article 2015
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Mathijssen, T. (author), Gallo, M. (author), Casati, E. (author), Nannan, N.R. (author), Zamfirescu, C. (author), Guardone, A. (author), Colonna, P. (author)This paper describes the commissioning of the flexible asymmetric shock tube (FAST), a novel Ludwieg tube-type facility designed and built at Delft University of Technology, together with the results of preliminary experiments. The FAST is conceived to measure the velocity of waves propagating in dense vapours of organic fluids, in the so-called...journal article 2015
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Correale, G. (author), Winkel, R. (author), Kotsonis, M. (author)An experimental study aimed at the characterization of energy deposition of nanosecond Dielectric Barrier Discharge (ns-DBD) plasma actuators was carried out. Special attention was given on the effect of the thickness and material used for dielectric barrier. The selected materials for this study were polyimide film (Kapton), polyamide based...journal article 2015
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Örley, F. (author), Trummler, T. (author), Hickel, S. (author), Mihatsch, M.S. (author), Schmidt, S.J. (author), Adams, N.A. (author)We employ a barotropic two-phase/two-fluid model to study the primary break-up of cavitating liquid jets emanating from a rectangular nozzle, which resembles a high aspect-ratio slot flow. All components (i.e., gas, liquid, and vapor) are represented by a homogeneous mixture approach. The cavitating fluid model is based on a thermodynamic...journal article 2015
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Nati, A. (author), De Kat, R. (author), Scarano, F. (author), Van Oudheusden, B.W. (author)The unsteady effect of a periodic pitching motion on the characteristic of a laminar separation bubble on the suction side of a SD7003 aerofoil is investigated by means of time-resolved planar and tomographic particle image velocimetry. The measurements provide information on the separation, transition and vortex roll-up onset as well as the...journal article 2015
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Groot, K.J. (author), Pinna, F. (author), Van Oudheusden, B.W. (author)The modal streamwise BiGlobal stability approach introduces problems regarding the specification of in- and outflow boundary conditions (BCs). Several conditions linked to lower hierarchical stability frameworks are elaborated and are applied to a freestream and boundary layer flow. The former case is used to demonstrate the odd-even decoupling...journal article 2015
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Dufour, R. (author), De Meulenaere, J. (author), Elham, A. (author)This paper presents the multidisciplinary optimization of an aircraft carried sub-orbital spaceplane. The optimization process focused on three disciplines: the aerodynamics, the structure and the trajectory. The optimization of the spaceplane geometry was coupled with the optimization of its trajectory. The structural weight was estimated using...journal article 2015
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Giepman, R.H.M. (author), Schrijer, F.F.J. (author), Van Oudheusden, B.W. (author)This study investigates the effects of boundary layer transition on an oblique shock wave reflection. The Mach number was 1.7, the unit Reynolds number was 35 × 106 m?1, and the pressure ratio over the interaction was 1.35. Particle image velocimetry is used as the main flow diagnostics tool, supported by oil-flow and Schlieren visualizations....journal article 2015
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Lynch, K.P. (author), Scarano, F. (author)The motion-tracking-enhanced MART (MTE-MART; Novara et al. in Meas Sci Technol 21:035401, 2010) has demonstrated the potential to increase the accuracy of tomographic PIV by the combined use of a short sequence of non-simultaneous recordings. A clear bottleneck of the MTE-MART technique has been its computational cost. For large datasets...journal article 2015
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Percin, M. (author), Van Oudheusden, B.W. (author)Tomographic particle image velocimetry was used to explore the evolution of three-dimensional flow structures of revolving low-aspect-ratio flat plates in combination with force measurements at a Reynolds number of 10,000. Two motion kinematics are compared that result in the same terminal condition (revolution with constant angular velocity and...journal article 2015
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Deng, S. (author), Percin, M. (author), Van Oudheusden, B. (author)This study explores the flow structures and unsteady force generation mechanisms of a flapping-wing micro air vehicle ‘DelFly Micro’ in forward flight configuration. Stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry (Stereo-PIV) measurements were performed to acquire three dimensional flow fields in the wake. Six components of forces and moments were...journal article 2015
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Scarano, F. (author), Ghaemi, S. (author), Alp Caridi, G.C. (author), Bosbach, J. (author), Dierksheide, U. (author), Sciacchitano, A. (author)The flow-tracing fidelity of sub-millimetre diameter helium-filled soap bubbles (HFSB) for low-speed aerodynamics is studied. The main interest of using HFSB in relation to micron-size droplets is the large amount of scattered light, enabling larger-scale three-dimensional experiments by tomographic PIV. The assessment of aerodynamic behaviour...journal article 2015
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Holtslag, M.C. (author), Bierbooms, W.A.A.M. (author), Van Bussel, G.J.W. (author)Atmospheric stability strongly influences wind shear and thus has to be considered when performing load calculations for wind turbine design. Numerous methods exist however for obtaining stability in terms of the Obukhov length L as well as for correcting the logarithmic wind profile. It is therefore questioned to what extend the choice of...journal article 2014