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- Inventor(s):
- Mehul Patel, Thomas C. Corke, Alan B. Cain
- Patent Number:
- US 9541106 B1
- Description:
The present invention relates to a method of designing or optimizing a control surface for use with plasma actuators for controlling an aircraft, missile, munition or automobile, and more particularly to controlling fluid flow across their surfaces or other surfaces using plasma actuators, which would benefit from such a method. The various embodiments provide the steps to increase the efficiency of aircraft, missiles, munitions and automobiles. The method of flow control also provides a mean…
- Date Issued:
- 2017-01-10
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- Inventor(s):
- Thomas C. Corke, Mehul Patel
- Patent Number:
- US 9,834,301 B1
- Description:
A method of increasing the performance of an aircraft, missile, munition or ground vehicle with plasma actuators, and more particularly of controlling fluid flow across their surfaces or other surfaces which would benefit from such a method, includes the design of an aerodynamic plasma actuator for the purpose of controlling airflow separation over a control surface of a aircraft, missile, or a ground vehicle, and a method of determining a modulation frequency for the plasma actuator for the …
- Date Issued:
- 2017-12-05