22nd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Harrogate, UK, 28 August - 1st September, 2000
Paper ICAS 2000-2.10.1 (IL)


MICRO ADAPTIVE FLOW CONTROL

R. Wlezien
DARP, USA

Keywords: flow control

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Micro Adaptive Flow Control program is described using a series of illustrative examples. Adaptive flow control is defined to be the active modification of aerodynamic flows using small time dependent actuators in judiciously chosen locations. A diverse set of large scale applications are described, in which micro adaptive flow control has a substantial overall system benefit.


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