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Aerodynamic drag is known to be one of the factors
contributing more to increased aircraft fuel consumption. The
primary source of skin friction drag during flight is the
boundary layer separation. This is the layer of air moving
smoothly in the immediate vicinity of the aircraft. In this paper
we discuss a cyber-physical system approach able of
performing an efficient suppression of the turbulent flow by
using a dense sensing deployment to detect the low pressure
region and a similarly dense deployment of actuators to
manage the turbulent flow. With this concept, only the
actuators in the vicinity of a separation layer are activated,
minimizing power consumption and also the induced drag.
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Sensor/actuator networks Cyber-physical systems Active flow control Avionics