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In turbine blade design, the use of turbulators in airfoil cavities has been a preferred means to cool the metal temperatures within the airfoil. Temperatures in the turbine section of a jet engine can easily reach beyond material temperature capability limits and without any in…

Recent advances in many fields have made the design of micro-aerial vehicles that implement flapping wings a possibility. However, there are many outstanding problems that must be solved before flapping flight can be implemented as a practical means of propulsion. This dissertat…

Several active flow control, as well as passive flow control, schemes were applied to a modified Glauert II "laminar" airfoil section. Zero mass-flux oscillatory suction and blowing and net mass-flux steady suction, or steady blowing were applied through a segmented spanwise slo…