Investigation of tail buffeting problem through hot wire measurements above a delta wing geometry, and an attempt at mitigating the harmonic oscillations through passive and active flow control techniques.

Publications:
(1) Kumar, Vaibhav, Nandeesh Hiremath, Dhwanil Shukla, Nikolaus Thorrell, and Narayanan Komerath. "Control of centrifugal instability in vortex-surface interaction." In ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection, 2016.
(2) Kumar, Vaibhav, Nikolaus Thorell, Dhwanil Shukla, and Narayanan Komerath. "Dielectric Barrier Discharge Actuators to Control Goertler Vortices on a Swept Wing." In ASME 2016.