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The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed an unexpected difference between the powerful winds launching from a disc around a neutron star and those from material circling supermassive black holes. The surprisingly dense wind blowing from the stellar system challenges our understanding of how such winds form and drive change in their surroundings.
As a multidisciplinary phenomenon, panel aeroelasticity in shock-dominated flow raises structural and aerodynamic concerns, representing one of the major challenges for the design and optimization of supersonic vehicles. Despite extensive investigations from both perspectives of fluid-structure interactions (FSIs) and shock-boundary layer interactions (SBLIs), a systematic review and outlook on the topic remains lacking, which is imperative to synthesize progress and identify emerging research frontiers.
Modern helicopters employ swept, dihedral blade-tip and nonlinear twist to enhance its aerodynamic performance, which also increase manufacturing complexity and induce significant vibratory loads, and thus vibration reduction of NTBT (New Type Blade-Tip) rotors has become a key research focus. Due to the excellent compatibility and quick response, the TEF (Trailing Edge Flap) technology is promising for rotor vibration reduction. Nevertheless, most aeroelastic researches have been focused on TEF technology or NTBT rotor, respectively, the combinations of TEF/NTBT rotor system remain hardly explored. The CFD/CSD (Computational Fluid Dynamics/Computational Structural Dynamics) method is competent to meet this challenge, which can effectively consider the unconventional blade platforms, unsteady flowfields, and structural dynamics. Therefore, the present aeroelastic study on TEF/NTBT rotor based on CFD/CSD method holds significant theoretical value and engineering importance.
A $4 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation enables a team of scholars from USC, the University of California, Riverside, and the Carnegie Science Observatories to establish a unique research hub to study, through novel methods, dark matter and neutrinos.