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1981
Energy harvesting via piezoceramics in unmanned aerial vehicles
Published 2015“…Experimentation was carried out on the UAV prototype with a wing span of 0.54 metres in a wind tunnel facility to simulate the real-time flight condition at 20 m/s using two different sized piezoceramic materials respectively. …”
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Final Year Project (FYP) -
1982
Span load modification via differential spoiler setting
Published 2010“…Particle image velocimetry (PIV) was used to measure the cross flow velocities downstream the model at IIUM low speed wind tunnel. Results reveals a noticeable inboard shift of wing loading for deflected spoiler numbers 5 and 6 at 30o and 40o with jumps in the span load distribution as an indication for the strength of individual vortices (wing/flap vortices). …”
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Proceeding Paper -
1983
Evaluation of aircraft wing-tip vortex using PIV
Published 2009“…Particle image velocimetry was used in a wind tunnel to measure the tip vortex velocity field and hence investigate the flow structure in a wake of aircraft half-wing model. …”
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Proceeding Paper -
1984
A field-based parameterisation of wind flow recovery in the lee of dryland plants
Published 2016“…Despite a wealth of studies investigating the impact of vegetation and windbreaks on windflow in controlled wind-tunnel and modelling environments, there is still a paucity of empirical field data for accurately parameterising the effect of vegetation in wind and sediment transport models. …”
Journal article -
1985
Landsat identifies aeolian dust emission dynamics at the landform scale
Published 2017“…Emissivity tests were undertaken using a PI-SWERL portable wind tunnel in three of the major dust producing river systems along the Namib coast, namely the Kuiseb, Omaruru and Huab Rivers. …”
Journal article -
1986
Heat transfer coefficient distributions for the convective cooling of non-cylindrical geometries in crossflow using extended surfaces
Published 1997“…Perspex models coated with thermochromic liquid crystal were tested at a range of Reynolds numbers in a heat transfer wind tunnel in which a step change in flow temperature was used to measure the transient thermal behaviour of the fins. …”
Journal article -
1987
Skyscrapers architectural form effects on airflow
Published 2021“…Basic shapes and modified shapes of square prism, cylindrical and pyramidal were tested through wind tunnel using Airflow meter with Pitot tube to determine the aerodynamic characteristics in winds from different directions. …”
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Article -
1988
Computational fluid dynamics simulation of drag reduction by riblets on automobile
Published 2009“…In this study, the simulation of turbulent flows over an automobile in a virtual wind tunnel has been conducted by computational fluid dynamics (CFD). …”
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Conference or Workshop Item -
1989
Aerodynamics effects of APC slow flyer propeller blade design with different airfoil origin positions
Published 2022“…The result of thrust, power coefficients and efficiencies are validated with the existing experimental wind tunnel data. All in all, the results show that propeller design with 100% AOP generates better aerodynamic performance than the one with 25% AOP by 7.473%, -5.587% and 15.891% in terms of thrust, coefficient of power and efficiency, respectively. …”
Article -
1990
Multidisciplinary design of a high lift device using shape memory alloy actuator
Published 2024“…The SMA actuator is designed to provide the required actuation force to achieve the trailing edge deflection. A wind tunnel testing is performed to verify the lift and drag coefficient produced by the high lift device. …”
Article -
1991
Attraction of female and male oriental fruit flies to conspecific males and mating competition following consumption of zingerone and ethyl vanillate.
Published 2011“…We studied the attraction of virgin females and males of the Oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis, to conspecific males fed with either Z or EV in a wind tunnel. Concomitant with decreasing light intensity, males fed with either Z attracted significantly higher numbers of conspecific males and females during the courtship period at dusk. …”
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Conference or Workshop Item -
1992
Aerodynamic performance of shark skin shape vortex generator
Published 2020“…The lift and drag coefficients of NACA 4415 airfoils without vortex generator, with triangular or shark skin shape vortex generators were obtained from wind tunnel tests. For the airfoil with shark skin shape vortex generator, its performance was compared with the results from computational fluid dynamics simulation. …”
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Book Section -
1993
Preliminary Stability Estimation And Analysis Of Aeromech I Uav Using Datcom Software
Published 2012“…Conventional methods such as wind tunnel test, flight test and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) are used for the estimation and analysis of the stability during aircraft design process. …”
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Thesis -
1994
Wind Induced Noise In Microphone Cavity Of Two Way Radio
Published 2019“…Noise measurement due to wind flow of a two-way radio and its bigger scale model (specimen) was referred to a study that was conducted inside an open-loop wind tunnel. A Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis was performed based on the noise measurement wind speed. …”
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Monograph -
1995
The Effect of Different Reynolds Number On Solid Sphere Using CFD and Its Verification
Published 2023“…The numerical results are later compared with experimental data collected from wind tunnel. At the end of the study, the nature flow around spherical models of different Reynolds number are visualized. …”
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Article -
1996
Effect of Reynolds number on the wake of a Next-Generation High-Speed Train using CFD analysis
Published 2023“…In addition, the simulation results were compared with the previous wind tunnel experimental data. The results indicated no significant changes in the overall wake flow structure when Re was increased. …”
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Article -
1997
Flow visualisation over the low sweep Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) configuration
Published 2022“…The experiments were carried out in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Low-Speed wind Tunnel (UTM-LST), and the computational work was done using Ansys Fluent. …”
Book Section -
1998
Flow characterization of low sweep MULDICON wing at low speed
Published 2023“…During the experiments steady-state loading, dynamic loading and flow visualization wind tunnel methods were used. Findings: The standard deviation quantified the unsteadiness and uncertainties of flow topology and predicted that they significantly affect the pitching moment (Cm) at medium to higher AOA. …”
Article -
1999
Aerodynamic parameters of urban building arrays with random geometries
Published 2011“…Furthermore, two types of 'randomness' are associated with the geometry of building arrays: the randomness of element heights (vertical) and that of the rotation angles of each block (horizontal). In this study, wind-tunnel experiments were conducted on seven types of urban building arrays with various roughness packing densities to measure the bulk drag coefficient Cd and mean wind profile; aerodynamic parameters such as roughness length zo and displacement height d were also estimated. …”
Article -
2000
Experimental study of UTM-LST generic half model transport aircraft
Published 2016“…This paper presents the experimental results from the investigation carried out at the UTM Low Speed wind tunnel facility (UTM-LST) on a half model generic transport aircraft at several configurations of primary control surfaces (flap, aileron and elevator). …”
Conference or Workshop Item