Rotating Wing Dynamic Stall: State of the Art and Future Directions

Dynamic stall has been studied for more than fifty years; in the last decade significant advances have been accomplished in the understanding, prediction, modeling and control of dynamic stall on rotors. In September 2019, an Army Research Office-funded workshop was held at the Georgia Institute of Technology to evaluate the state of the art and future directions in the understanding and control of dynamic stall found on rotors, specifically for vertical lift vehicles. Approximately forty attendees drawn from top experts in the field to graduate students convened to discuss experimental, computational, theoretical, and control research in the field over a two-day period. This paper provides a summary of the findings from this workshop, including a synopsis of best practices for experiments and first-principles-based computational prediction of rotor dynamic stall. Experimental data sets are discussed, as well the direction of research for empirical (non-first-principles) modeling and control of dynamic stall.