All Stories

  1. Experimental investigation of the effects of a moving wall on the separation bubble in a hypersonic ramp–flat plate configuration

    Article • Physics of Fluids, November 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  2. How Electricity Shapes Airflow for Better Planes

    Article • Physics of Fluids, March 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  3. Attitude estimation for an all-rotating monocopter through attitude decomposition and MARG Sensor fusion

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, November 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  4. Numerical Investigation of the Effect of the Cavity on Flow Control of Continuous Pulses Opposing Plasma Synthetic Jets in Hypersonic Flow

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Engineering, September 2024, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  5. Study on the evolution stages of the flow field induced by an alternating current sliding discharge plasma actuator in different actuation modes

    Article • Physics of Fluids, June 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  6. Characteristics of a nanosecond pulsed sliding discharge plasma actuator at low pressure

    Article • AIP Advances, July 2023, American Institute of Physics

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  7. Experimental investigation of the interaction between a curved-surface jet and the mainstream on an airfoil at Mach 8

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, July 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  8. Nanosecond plasma actuation by a bending actuator mounted on a sharp edge in quiescent air

    Article • Physics of Fluids, June 2023, American Institute of Physics

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  9. Characteristics of the shedding vortex around the Coanda surface and its impact on circulation control airfoil performance

    Article • Physics of Fluids, February 2023, American Institute of Physics

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  10. Investigation of heat and mass transfer of flow structures generated by a pulsed surface arc discharge actuator in quiescent air

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, February 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  11. Study on Characteristics of an AC Sliding Discharge Plasma Actuator Operating at Different Pressures

    Article • Actuators, January 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  12. Effect of electrode geometry on the flow structure induced by plasma actuators

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  13. Effect of flow structure frequency on flow separation control using dielectric barrier discharge actuator

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Boo C. Khoo, Dr. Zhikun Sun

  14. Flow Structures from Nanosecond Pulsed Surface Arc Discharge in Magnetic Field

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  15. Numerical Investigation on Flow Control of a Hypersonic Airfoil by Plasma Synthetic Jet

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Engineering, September 2022, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  16. Numerical Simulation of Ground Effect on Circulation Control Airfoil

    Article • International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, August 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  17. Experimental investigation of flow control of a curved-surface jet at Mach 5 hypersonic flow

    Article • Physics of Fluids, June 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  18. Experimental study on frequency characteristics of the actuations produced by plasma synthetic jet actuator and its geometric effects

    Article • Physics of Fluids, June 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Dr. Zhikun Sun

  19. Aerodynamic actuation characteristic research of array plasma synthetic jet actuator

    Article • July 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Zhikun Sun