Flow Control Techniques: Advances in Flow System Analysis, Modeling and Applications, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Fluids (ISSN 2311-5521).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 607
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Interests: flow control; computational fluid dynamics; compressor rotating stall; fluidic thrust vectoring; gasturbine design and control
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Dear Colleagues,
Flow control is a fascinating topic of fluid dynamics that can play a key role in the route to the CO2-neutral growth of aviation transportation. The ambitious goals involved in this road map have pushed the designers towards aggressively optimized designs of flow devices and gas turbine components, which often become more prone to instabilities or abrupt performance losses in off-design conditions.
Therefore, passive and active flow control strategies can enhance the performances of aerodynamic devices and increase safety margins both in subsonic and supersonic flight.
The key aspects of a flow control application are:
- The derivation of accurate real-time models of the nonlinear flow field. Substantial improvement on this topic may derive from recent advances in CFD simulations and experimental testing, that allow for a deeper understanding of flow unsteadiness and instabilities.
- The development of reliable flow manipulators and sensing systems, composed of a network of either physical or virtual sensors;
- The design of robust control laws, tailored to the specific system (e.g., by using the Digital Twin concept and Artificial Intelligence approaches) and to the targets of each flight mission phase.
This Special Issue aims to collect the latest advances in the different techniques of passive and active flow control, including theoretical flow modeling, experimental investigations and numerical simulations of controlled/uncontrolled flow fields. Applications of classical approaches or artificial intelligence-based model reductions (e.g., by using deep learning, reinforced learning, and physically informed neural networks) are welcome.
Dr. Michele Ferlauto
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- trapped vortex
- shock wave control
- drag reduction
- high-lift profile
- fluidic thrust vectoring
- nozzle instabilities
- dynamic stall
- compressor rotating stall
- synthetic jet
- virtual shaping
- plasma actuators
- dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator
- combustion instability
- supersonic inlets
- scramjet
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