The recently developed wind gust generator, the adaptive nozzle (Wood and Breuer, 2025) , features a nozzle with a fully rotatable upper contour, enabling a smooth gust generation with low unwanted flow disturbances. While preserving the underlying …
To generate horizontal wind gusts in a classical wind tunnel, Wood, Breuer, and Neumann [A novel approach for artificially generating horizontal wind gusts based on a movable plate: The paddle,” J. Wind Eng. Ind. Aerodyn. 230, 105170 (2022)] …
The paper is concerned with numerical investigations on the effect of vertical wind gusts on airfoils in a parameter range relevant for Micro-Air Vehicles. Using a simplified substitute model instead of an elastic wing, a rigid but elastically …
The paper addresses the simulation of turbulent wind gusts hitting rigid and flexible structures. The purpose is to show that such kind of complex fluid–structure interaction (FSI) problems can be simulated by high-fidelity numerical techniques with …