Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer for Aircraft and Aerospace Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J: Thermal Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 4510
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Aeronautic; heat transfer; parallel calculation; atmospheric icing; computational fluid dynamics; ice protection systems; thermo fluid; surface roughness; sensitivity analysis; in-flight icing
Interests: Computational fluid dynamics; high order numerical scheme; mesh adaptation; immersed boundary method; high-performance computing; multi-physics simulations; inflight icing/deicing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The predictions of aerodynamics and heat transfer are central in the design process of aircraft and aerospace systems. Although researchers have recognized the key role of aerodynamics to determine the forces acting on aircraft for several years, the limit on the net carbon emissions soon imposed by countries forces the development of more efficient aircraft. To reduce the drag, engineers study new designs taking advantage of the ever-increasing computer power and advanced 3D numerical methods. These new numerical tools need new experimental results to broaden their validity ranges, especially heat transfer measurements. Heat transfer above aerodynamic surfaces is less studied, but it plays a critical role in applications such as aircraft ice protection systems, turbine blade cooling, high-velocity flow, and hypersonic vehicles. The heat transfer prediction may become even more challenging over the rough surface that can occur during ice accretion, turbine blade wearing, or the ablation process for a re-entry vehicle. Thermal models for Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes solutions need improvements to increase prediction fidelity, either from a better understanding of the physical phenomenon or from additional calibration with experimental results. This Special Issue will reduce the gap between the aerodynamic and the heat transfer knowledge, by encouraging researchers to share their convective heat transfer results.
Prof. Dr. François Morency
Prof. Dr. Héloïse Beaugendre
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Heat transfer
- Turbulence modeling
- Wall roughness
- Unsteady heat transfer
- Convective heat transfer
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