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  1. Overview of the D90 Active Flow Control Demonstrator Project

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  2. Flight and Wind Tunnel Measurements of Active Flow Control Effector Authority on the D90-v2 Jet

    Article • July 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  3. NATO AVT-350 Task Group: Wind Tunnel Measurements of Control Effector Performance on the D90-v2 Jet

    Article • January 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  4. NATO AVT-350 Task Group: Comparison of the Lateral-Directional Stability Provided by Conventional and Active Flow Control Effectors on Tailless Aircraft

    Article • January 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams, Dr. Michael A Niestroy

  5. NATO AVT-350 Task Group: Results to Assess Prospects of Active Flow Control on a Next-Gen Tailless UAS – Part II TO/L Regime

    Article • January 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Michael A Niestroy, Professor David R Williams

  6. NATO AVT-350 Task Group: Flight Tests With Active Flow Control Effectors on the D-90-V2 Jet

    Article • January 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  7. Modeling the Aircraft Dynamics and Active Flow Control Effects of a Tailless Subscale UCAS Aircraft in 6 Degrees-of-Freedom

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  8. Generating Traveling Cross-Flow Gusts in a Wind Tunnel

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  9. Modeling the Dynamics of Actuation on an Airfoil at Post-Stall Angles of Attack

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  10. Lift, drag, and moment response of a UCAS model experiencing longitudinal von Karman gust spectra

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  11. Pressure Feedback Active Flow Control of Unsteady Roll Moment on a UCAS Delta Wing

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  12. NATO AVT-239 Task Group: Flight Test of Compressed and Bleed-Air Driven Control Effectors on the ICE/SACCON UAS Subscale Aircraft

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  13. NATO AVT-239 Task Group: Active Flow Control Simulation of the Tailless ICE Aircraft

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Michael A Niestroy, Professor David R Williams

  14. NATO AVT-239 Task Group: Flight Control Derivatives using Active Flow Control Effectors on the ICE/SACCON UAS Model

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  15. Alleviating Unsteady Aerodynamic Loads with Closed-Loop Flow Control

    Article • AIAA Journal, June 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Rudibert King, Professor David R Williams

  16. Response of the Separated Flow over an Airfoil to a Short-Time Actuator Burst

    Article • June 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams, Dr. Andre Fernando de Castro da Silva

  17. Modeling Lift Hysteresis on Pitching Airfoils with a Modified Goman–Khrabrov Model

    Article • AIAA Journal, February 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  18. Mathematical Modeling of Wind Tunnels for Low Reynolds Number Unsteady Aerodynamic Testing

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  19. Modeling of Conventional Flaps at High Deflection-Rate

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  20. Goman-Khrabrov Model on a Pitching Airfoil with Flow Control

    Article • June 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  21. Crossed-Actuation AFC for Lateral-Directional Control of an ICE-101/Saccon UCAV

    Article • June 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  22. Modeling Dynamic Lift Response to Actuation

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  23. A Vortex Sheet/Point Vortex Dynamical Model For Unsteady Separated Flows

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  24. Modeling Lift Hysteresis with a Modified Goman-Khrabrov Model on Pitching Airfoils

    Article • June 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  25. A Data-Driven Modeling Framework for Predicting Forces and Pressures on a Rapidly Pitching Airfoil

    Article • June 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  26. Comparison of a Separated Flow Response to Localized and Global-type Disturbances

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  27. Separated Flow Response to Single Pulse Actuation

    Article • AIAA Journal, January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams

  28. Scaling Vehicle Dynamics and Fluid Dynamics in Gusting Flows

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor David R Williams