Transonic Flow
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Aeronautics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 8226
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Interests: aerodynamics; computational fluid dynamics; fluid mechanics; gas dynamics; fluid turbulence; experimental fluid mechanics; flow
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Dear Colleagues,
Transonic flow research has been of critical importance since the development of high-speed propellor aeroplanes and turbojet engines in the mid-1940s. The transonic flow regime has been, and remains, a challenge both for computational prediction and experimental simulation. The close coupling of the shock waves arising from the compressibility of the air and the viscous flow on the aircraft surfaces leads to highly unsteady and complicated flows that often involve detrimental flow separations. These can lead to unsteady loading that can cause structural vibrations of aircraft components. An understanding of unsteady transonic flow is therefore fundamental to the safe design of high-speed aircraft.
Today’s aircraft industry is challenged to develop revolutionary new aircraft concepts to address the aviation impact on climate change and noise. This is driving reassessments in design philosophy to achieve step changes in aerodynamic and propulsive efficiency, involving much closer coupling of the aircraft fuselage, wings, and engines. Emerging data on the transonic performance of these revolutionary designs have revealed how different the flows are to those that we understand around conventional tube and swept-wing designs.
Transonic flow research therefore remains critical to the development of high-speed aircraft today, as it ever was, and it is fitting that this Special Issue of Aerospace is devoted to this important topic.
Prof. Dr. Simon Prince
Guest Editor
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