Event
AE Seminar | Aerodynamic Flow Control: From Basic Research to Application
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
3:30 p.m.
3164 Martin Hall | Aerospace Engineering Conference Room
Anya Jones
arjones@umd.edu
http://www.aero.umd.edu/events/seminars
Aerospace Engineering Minta Martin Seminar Series
AERODYNAMIC FLOW CONTROL: FROM BASIC RESEARCH TO APPLICATION
Speaker: Michael Amitay
Professor and James L. Decker ’45
Endowed Chair in Aerospace Engineering Director of the Center for Flow Physics and Control (CeFPaC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Abstract:
The ability to manipulate a flow field to affect a desired change is of immense practical importance. Flow control involves passive and active devices to affect a beneficial change in wall-bounded or free-shear flows. The presentation will be divided into three major parts:
(1) Current and future activities in the Center for Flow Physics and Control at RPI.
(2) Basic Research: control of laminar to turbulent transition: three dimensional characterization and control of T-S waves using wave cancellation via localized Piezoelectrically Driven Oscillating Surface (PDOS) actuators.
(3) Application: Performance Enhancement of a Vertical Stabilizer of a Commercial Airplane using Distributed Finite Span Synthetic Jet Actuators
Bio: Michael Amitay received his D.Sc. (1994) from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Arizona (1994-1996) working on active control of heat transfer from heated/cooled surfaces. From 1996-2003 he held several positions at Georgia Tech Research Institute (Aerospace, Transportation, and Advanced Systems Lab) and at Georgia Institute of Technology (School of Mechanical Engineering). He joined RPI in 2003 and he is currently the James L. Decker ‘45 Endowed Chair of Aerospace Engineering and the Director and founder of the Center for Flow Physics and Control. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA. Prof. Amitay has over 130 journal and conference publications, four book chapters, three conference papers that were awarded “best technical paper” in 2000 by the ASME and in 2001 and 2002 by the AIAA, and four U.S. patents. His current research interests are in the field of active flow control with applications in aerodynamics for Aerial and Underwater Vehicles, and performance enhancement of wind turbines.
