Fluid Flow Mechanics (4th Edition)
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2025 | Viewed by 69
Special Issue Editor
Interests: turbulence modelling for RANS and LES methods; transition modelling; numerical methods for flow control; drag reduction devices
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Authors are encouraged to submit technical papers in the area of theoretical and computational fluid dynamics relevant to aerospace applications. The focus should be on applied research and advanced modelling and technology developments. Papers providing a comparison between reliable numerical results and certified experimental data are highly encouraged. The main topics that we expect to cover include the following:
- Low-speed and low-Reynolds-number aerodynamics: flows that exhibit laminar separation bubbles and modelling issues connected to bubble length, pressure recovery in the re-attachment region, and turbulence levels inside bubbles.
- Martian aerodynamics: modelling issues related to the aerodynamics of vehicles operating in the Martian environment. The very low atmospheric pressure and density, together with low temperatures, means that flight in Mars’ atmosphere is characterized by low Reynolds and high Mach numbers simultaneously—a circumstance that seldom occurs on Earth.
- Flow control: actuators, applications, and flow physics: flow control techniques for avoiding/mitigating separation, reducing aerodynamic drag, and reducing aerodynamic noise.
- Flow instability and laminar–turbulent transition: modelling and simulation of flow instabilities and models that predict boundary-layer transitions for RANS equations.
- Hybrid RANS/LES models: turbulence modelling through hybrid RANS/LES methods, zonal and non-zonal approaches, gray-area mitigation issues, turbulence length scale and switching filters, and wall-modelled large-eddy simulations.
Dr. Pietro Catalano
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- turbulence modelling
- computational fluid dynamics
- laminar separation bubbles
- separation
- transition
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