This research examines wing behavior in conditions where baseline aerodynamic assumptions no longer hold. The work spans ice-accreted airfoils, actively blown wings, and dynamically pitching delta wings with leading-edge-vortex control, all of which push the flow into regimes shaped by separation, contamination, actuation, or rapid motion. Rather than treating these cases as minor perturbations of a clean wing, the studies show that off-design conditions reorganize the flow in fundamental ways, changing coherent structures, wake development, vortex stability, and the relationship between geometry and performance.
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Pabon, Julian A., and Sidaard Gunasekaran. "Experimental Investigation of Dynamic Pitching Effects on a Delta Wing with Blown Jet." In AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, p. 0285. 2026. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2026-0285
