Active flow control (AFC) encompasses a range of techniques designed to alter fluid flow characteristics in real time by introducing targeted actuation. Central to many of these methods are fluidic ...

Blasting jets of air many times a second from the back of a car is an energy-efficient way of reducing air drag – according to a team of academic and industrial researchers. The team is now doing ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The premise behind Active Flow Control is eliminating reliance on the flight control surfaces we currently use to manage the direction of airflow over a jet (and in ...

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences is advancing to the next stage of a US military experiment aimed at developing novel methods of aircraft flight control. The Control of Revolutionary Aircraft ...

Emerging aviation technologies developer Aurora Flight Sciences is progressing with assembly of its prototype X-65 active flow control demonstrator. Aurora on 20 November shared an image of the X-65 ...

DARPA plans to launch a program to fly an X-plane designed around active flow control with the award of contracts to conduct an extended conceptual design phase. Three contracts could be awarded ...