Airfoil Surface Forming and Conformity Test Using Laser Tracker by Habtamu Beri, Perumalla Janaki Ramulu

“…In this study, NACA0018 airfoil surface conformity test was conducted using API tracker3 in combination with SpatialAnalyzer (SA) and modeling software SolidWorks. …”
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Numerical Investigation on Vortex Shedding from a Hydrofoil with a Beveled Trailing Edge by Seung-Jae Lee, Jun-Hyeok Lee, Jung-Chun Suh

“…To better understand the vortex shedding mechanism and to assess the capability of our numerical methodology, we conducted numerical investigations of vortex shedding from truncated and oblique trailing edges of a modified NACA 0009 hydrofoil. The hybrid particle-mesh method and the vorticity-based subgrid scale model were employed to simulate these turbulent wake flows. …”
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OPTIMIZATION AND RESEARCH OF TIDAL TURBINE BLADES BASED ON GENETIC ALGORITHM by WANG YongDing, LI NingYe

“…Based on the hydrofoil of NACA4412,the method of Joukowski conformal transformation was used to build the parameterized model,the genetic algorithm was realized by MATLAB programming and an optimal solution was found on the basis of using high lift-drag ratio as the objective function under the design variables and constrains. …”
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Proper Orthogonal Decomposition as Surrogate Model for Aerodynamic Optimization by Valentina Dolci, Renzo Arina

“…In the second case, a two-dimensional flow past a NACA 0012 airfoil is considered and the surrogate model is constructed in the (Mach, angle of attack) parameter space. …”
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Vortex Simulation of the Bubbly Flow around a Hydrofoil by Tomomi Uchiyama, Tomohiro Degawa

“…The bubbly flow around a hydrofoil of NACA4412 with a chord length 100 mm is simulated. …”
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Performance of Combined Water Turbine with Semielliptic Section of the Savonius Rotor by Kaprawi Sahim, Dyos Santoso, Agus Radentan

“…In this study, three semielliptic sections of aspect ratio 0.8 were used for Savonius bucket while the Darrieus blade used three wings of airfoil NACA 0015. The Darrieus-Savonius turbine’s performances were studied experimentally in an irrigation canal of South Sumatera, Indonesia. …”
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Research and Development of a Small-Scale Icing Wind Tunnel Test System for Blade Airfoil Icing Characteristics by Lei Shi, Fang Feng, Wenfeng Guo, Yan Li

“…On this basis, the icing tests of an aluminium cylinder, an NACA0018 airfoil, and an S809 airfoil were carried out, and the two-dimensional ice shape obtained by the test was compared with the two-dimensional ice shape obtained by the numerical simulation software. …”
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A New Aerodynamic Optimization Method with the Consideration of Dynamic Stability by Mi Baigang, Wang Xiangyu

“…Finally, a new aerodynamic optimization method can be built. We take NACA0012 as an example to validate this method. The results show that the dynamic derivative calculation method is effective and conventional optimization design can significantly improve the lift-drag ratio. …”
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A Comparative Numerical Study on the Performances and Vortical Patterns of Two Bioinspired Oscillatory Mechanisms: Undulating and Pure Heaving by Mohsen Ebrahimi, Madjid Abbaspour

“…Navier-Stokes equations are solved, by a pressure-based finite volume method solver, in an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) framework domain containing a 2D NACA0012 foil moving with prescribed kinematics. …”
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Assessment of Turbulence Models for Flow Simulation around a Wind Turbine Airfoil by Fernando Villalpando, Marcelo Reggio, Adrian Ilinca

“…This investigation focuses on the application of the computational fluid dynamics tool FLUENT to the study of flows over the NACA 63–415 airfoil at various angles of attack. …”
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Wind Tunnel Test of the Icing Characteristics of Airfoil Rotating around a Vertical Axis by Yan Li, Lei Shi, Wenfeng Guo, Ce Sun, Yu Jiang

“…Then, an icing experiment on the rotating blade with the NACA0018 airfoil was carried out. The characteristics of icing, including icing distribution, growth rate of icing, and thickness of the ice layer, were defined and quantitatively analyzed under different tip speed ratios and setting angles. …”
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Time-Dependent Effects of Glaze Ice on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of an Airfoil by Narges Tabatabaei, Michel J. Cervantes, Chirag Trivedi

“…The computational fluid dynamic analysis was conducted to investigate the effect of critical ice accretions on a 0.610 m chord NACA 0011 airfoil. Leading edge glaze ice accretion was simulated with flat plates (spoiler-ice) extending along the span of the blade. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Aircraft Icing with an Unsteady Thermodynamic Model considering the Development of Water Film and Ice Layer by Xiaobin Shen, Zicheng Qi, Wenzhao Zhao, Guiping Lin, Yu Zeng, Zuodong Mu

“…Icing simulations were performed for a NACA0012 airfoil, and the results show acceptable agreement with the data in the literature. …”
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Numerical Modeling of Unsteady Cavitating Flows around a Stationary Hydrofoil by Antoine Ducoin, Biao Huang, Yin Lu Young

“…The objective of this paper is to evaluate the predictive capability of three popular transport equation-based cavitation models for the simulations of partial sheet cavitation and unsteady sheet/cloud cavitating flows around a stationary NACA66 hydrofoil. The 2D calculations are performed by solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equation using the CFD solver CFX with the k-ω SST turbulence model. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Helicopter Rotor Performance Degradation in Natural Rain Encounter by Guozhi Li, Yihua Cao

“…CFD simulations are conducted, including the case of NACA 0012 airfoil with 10 m chord length, and the case of SC1095 airfoil used in a full-scale rotor of UH-60A helicopter. …”
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Structural Optimization of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT): A Multi-Variable Study for Enhanced Deflection and Fatigue Performance by Sajid Ali, Hongbae Park, Daeyong Lee

“…The results showed that NACA 0030 airfoil, composite steel, and single-pile foundation performed best under TSR 1.8 conditions, with the potential to reduce strain by approximately 30% and fatigue damage by approximately 25% compared to conventional structures. …”
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Performance Enhancement in Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Using Blade With Split by Adilkhan Tuken, Cemil Yigit

“…The blades are designed using NREL's S819 profile at the root section and NACA 63‐415 profile at the middle and tip sections. …”
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Bidirectional Fluid–Structure Interaction Study on Hydrofoil Hardness and Oscillation Mode Optimization by Ertian Hua, Mingwang Xiang, Qizong Sun, Tao Wang, Yabo Song, Caiju Lu

“…A two-dimensional flexible symmetric hydrofoil model of NACA0012 with a chord length of 1 m was constructed for this research. …”
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Characterization of Origin and Evolution of Formation Water in Buried Hill of Jizhong Depression, China, Using Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Geochemical Data by Fei Li, Jianhui Zeng

“…The samples were classified into four clusters, C1–C4, in HCA and the hydrochemical types of C1–C4 are HCO3-Na, Cl·HCO3-Na, Cl-Na, and Cl-Na·Ca. From C1 to C2, C3, and C4, the water-rock interaction becomes increasingly intensive, and rNa/rCl gets lower while total dissolved solids and r(Cl-Na)/rMg get higher. …”
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Analisa Eksperimental Pengujian Turbin Angin Propeller Tiga Sudu Horizontal Axis by Islahuddin - Islahuddin, Sanny Ardhy, Meiki Eru Putra

“…The blade type is based on the NACA 2410 airfoil made of fiber composite and epoxy resin which is very effective at low wind speeds. …”
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