A study to estimate and understand aerodynamic forces on bluff bodies of arbitrary shapes at arbitrary attitudes.

Publications:
(1) Motahari, N., Hiremath, N., Shukla, D., Liberi, B., Thorell, N., & Komerath, N. (2015, November). "Generalized airloads prediction for bluff bodies transported as slung loads". In ASME 2015 IMECE.
(2) Shukla, Dhwanil, Nandeesh Hiremath, Nicholas Motahari, and Narayanan Komerath. "Genesis of the airload variations on cylinders of small aspect ratios." In ASME 2015 IMECE.
(3) Motahari, Nicholas, Dhwanil Shukla, Nandeesh Hiremath, and Narayanan Komerath. "Aerodynamic Load Mapping of Bluff Bodies: An Update and Summary." In ASME 2016 IMECE.
(4) Komerath, Narayanan, Nandeesh Hiremath, Dhwanil Shukla, Joseph Robinson, Ayush Jha, and Arun Palaniappan. Aerodynamic Loads on Arbitrary Configurations: Measurements, Computations and Geometric Modeling. No. 2017-01-2162. SAE Technical Paper, 2017.