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Sudesh Woodiga, Linda Hanes
Sudesh Woodiga, Linda Hanes
International Alumni
Holder of three degrees from Western Michigan University— bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate—alumnus Sudesh Woodiga has achieved much success as an aerodynamics engineer at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Mich.
Computational Analysis Of A Wing Oscillator, Ryne Derrick Radermacher
Computational Analysis Of A Wing Oscillator, Ryne Derrick Radermacher
Masters Theses
An analysis of a newly proposed wind power extraction device called a wing oscillator was performed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). A wing oscillator is a device that consists of two airfoils attached to a central pivot by means of a frame or shaft. Oscillatory motion is produced by controlling the angle of attack of the airfoils as a fluid flow is passed over the device. A robust mathematical scheme was developed to investigate the performance of the wing oscillator and was hooked to the CFD software package FLUENT through User Defined Functions (UDFs). Using the dynamic meshing analysis methods …