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Recently reported experimental results demonstrate that restabilization of the low-Reynolds-number flow past a circular cylinder can be achieved by the placement of a smaller cylinder in the wake of the first at particular locations. Traditional numerical procedures for modeling such phenomena are computationally expensive. An approach is presented here in which the properties of the adjoint solutions to the linearized equations of motion are exploited to map quickly the best positions for the small cylinder's placement. Comparisons with experiment and previous computations are favorable. The approach is shown to be applicable to general flows, illustrating how strongly control mechanisms that involve sources of momentum couple to unstable (or stable) modes of the system. Hill, D. C. Ames Research Center NASA-TM-103858, A-91119, NAS 1.15:103858 RTOP 505-59-53...

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