Advancing vehicles with an improved aerodynamic quality (the lift-to-drag ratio) is ongoing,
and results from this R&D can be used to form a new technological platform for the
next breakthrough of an innovated blended wing-body aircraft.
Small and medium scale UAVs and AUVs using different passive and active flow control
systems is one of the potential areas of the present project as well.
An alternative area is the control of bluff-body wakes of structures,
and suppression of the related vortex shedding. There is an unlimited amount of examples in
environmental engineering, like vortex-induced vibrations of pipes, bridges,
offshore platforms and structures, buildings and city landscapes, etc.,
where the wake control can reduce unsteady loads and induced vibrations.