Aerodynamics

ME-445

Group project info

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Description

Group projects on applying the aerodynamic theories covered during the lectures on experimental or numerical data will count for 30% of your final grades.

You can find all info related to the group project here: https://go.epfl.ch/ME445_groupproject

Important dates: 

October 27 Group project info session during the exercise session 

November 04 Submit form to indicate paper preference

November 05 Attributions of papers

Groups 02, 06, 11, 13, 17: Tremblay-Dionne, V., and T. Lee. “Discrepancy in the Aerodynamic Property and Flowfield of a Symmetric Airfoil Produced by the Stationary and Moving Ground Effect.” Journal of Fluids Engineering 143, no. 2 (2021): 021301. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4048290.


Groups 05, 14, 21, 23, 27: Maughmer, Mark D., Leonard P. Metkowski, Christopher J. Axten, and Dan M. Somers. “Exploration of a Low-Speed, Flapped, Slotted, Natural-Laminar-Flow Airfoil.” Journal of Aircraft 62, no. 2 (2025): 341–48. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.C037802.


Groups 03, 07, 08, 19, 26: Jones, R., D. J. Cleaver, and I. Gursul. “Aerodynamics of Biplane and Tandem Wings at Low Reynolds Numbers.” Experiments in Fluids 56, no. 6 (2015): 124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00348-015-1998-3.


Groups 09, 10, 12, 18, 25: Molina, Juan, and Xin Zhang. “Aerodynamics of a Heaving Airfoil in Ground Effect.” AIAA Journal 49, no. 6 (2011): 1168–79. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J050369.


Groups 01, 16, 24, 29: Zhao, Chenchen, Duo Wang, Ting Yu, and Hongyi Xu. “Direct Numerical Simulation of Tandem-Wing Aerodynamic Interactions at Low Reynolds Number.” AIAA Journal 62, no. 12 (2024): 4732–50. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J064345.


Groups 04, 15, 20, 22, 28: Zhang, Xin, and Jonathan Zerihan. “Edge Vortices of a Double Element Wing in Ground Effect.” Journal of Aircraft 41, no. 5 (2004): 1127–37. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.1380.

December 09 Project presentations (groups 5, 14, 23, 21, 27, 7, 8, 19, 3, 26, 4, 28, 22, 20, 15) 

December 16  Project presentations (groups 25, 18, 12, 9, 10 24, 16, 1, 29, 2, 13, 17, 11, 6) 



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