Active Flow Control Capstone Presents at SciTech

CPT(P) Tim Ashcraft from the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (CME) presented at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Science and Technology Forum in Orlando, Fl. The paper presented, entitled "Delaying Separation through Sweeping Jet Flow Control," was the culmination of the Active Flow Control (AFC) Capstone Team's year-long senior mechanical engineering design project. The team consisted of cadets Maximiliano Salinas, Marvin Lewis, Brandon Werling, and Jameson Wojewodka, with advisement from LTC Seth Norberg (CME) and CPT(P) Tim Ashcraft (CME), sponsored by Dr. David Schatzman and Mr. Jacob Wilson at the US Army Aviation Development Directorate at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA. The team successfully demonstrated the ability to control separation (and effectively reduce drag) with their design through a week-long test in the 7x10 foot wind tunnel at NASA Ames. As a result of this success, future testing is being conducted by this year's AFC team on the UH-60 Extended Stores Support System in an effort to reduce drag on Army Aviation platforms.