Advances in Thermal Fluid, Dynamics and Control

Dear Colleagues,

Serious flight load environments bring challenging problems for flight vehicles related to their thermal fluid, dynamics, control, etc.

Supersonic/hypersonic flows have become a popular aerodynamic part to achieve better performance of aircraft structures, e.g., wave rider vehicles or scramjet engines. In this context, a high temperature, complex fluid–structure interaction and thermal aeroelasticity have attracted significant attention in the past decade.

Advances in numerical simulations or experimental studies on fluid–structure coupling have provided promising solutions to these difficulties, but significant research remains needed in the present and future. Especially, useful multidisciplinary coupling methods are still urgently needed, e.g., effective coupling methods or achievable wind tunnel experiments.

Structural dynamic characteristics are influenced at every moment by such load environments, so how to find regular patterns in the dynamic responses of the key structures of an aircraft can explain such complex coupling problems. Both numerical and experimental methods can be used to study these problems.

This Special Issue aims to present innovative numerical and experimental investigations into aerodynamics, thermal aerodynamics and thermal aeroelasticity related to flight vehicles. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Advances in thermal fluid analysis;
• advances in the aerodynamics of hypersonic flights;
• advances in thermal dynamic analysis;
• novel concepts and experimental methods of aerodynamics or aeroelasticity;
• advanced experimental techniques in structural dynamics;
• aero-thermal–mechanical analyses of aircraft systems;
• advanced analytical methods in aerodynamics;
• thermal aerodynamics and thermal aeroelasticity.

Dr. Yuguang Bai
Dr. Hexia Huang
Prof. Dr. Pan Wang
Prof. Dr. Dan Zhao
Guest Editors

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• thermal fluid
• fluid–structure interaction
• structure dynamics
• aero-elasticity
• advanced engine design and analysis
• wind tunnel experiments
• dynamic and control

• Thermal Fluid Dynamics and Control in Aerospace in Aerospace (11 articles)