Dr. Dominique PoirelB.Eng., M.Eng., Ph.D., P.Eng. Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Publications (students in bold)

Journals

M. Khalil, D. Poirel, and A. Sarkar, “Probabilistic Parameter Estimation of a Fluttering Aeroelastic System in the Transitional Reynolds Number Regime” AIAA Journal (submitted)

D. Poirel, V. Métivier, and G. Dumas, “Computational Aeroelastic Simulations of Self-Sustained Pitch Oscillations of a NACA0012 at Transitional Reynolds Numbers”, Journal of Fluids and Structures (in print)

A. Ania, D., Poirel. M.J. Potvin, “Kinematic and Aerodynamic Characterization of the Rotaflap – A Novel Flapping Wing Mechanism”, The Aeronautical Journal, Vol. 115, No. 1163, 2011, pp. 1-13.

D. Poirel and W. Yuan, “Aerodynamics of Laminar Separation Flutter at a Transitional Reynolds Number”, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 26, No. 7-8, 2010, pp. 1174-1194.

D. Poirel, Y. Harrisand A. Benaissa, “Self-Sustained Aeroelastic Oscillations of a NACA0012 Airfoil at Low-to-Moderate Reynolds Numbers”, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 700-719, 2008.

D. Poirel and S.J. Price, “Bifurcation Characteristics of a Two-Dimensional Structurally Nonlinear Airfoil in Turbulent Flow”, Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 423-435, 2007.

A. Ania, D. Poirel, M.J. Potvin and S. Montminy, “Flapping Wing Devices for Mars Exploration”, Journal of Engineering Design and Innovation, Vol. 1P, pp. 1-8, 2005.

D. Poirel, S. Dunn and J. Porter, “Flutter Margin Method Accounting for Modal Parameter Uncertainties”, Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 42, No. 5, pp. 1236-1243, September – October 2005.

D. Poirel and S.J. Price, “Random Binary (Coalescence) Flutter of a Two-Dimensional Linear Airfoil”, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 23-42, August 2003.

D. Poirel and S.J. Price, “Response Probability Structure of a Structurally Nonlinear Fluttering Airfoil in Turbulent Flow”, Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 185-202, April 2003.

D. Poirel and S.J. Price, "Structurally Nonlinear Fluttering Airfoil in Turbulence Flow", AIAA Journal, Vol.39, No. 11, pp. 1960-1968, November 2001.

D. Poirel and S.J. Price, "Post-Instability Behavior of a Structurally Nonlinear Airfoil in Longitudinal Turbulence", Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 619-626, September – October 1997.

Conferences

D. Poirel, F. Mendes, “Experimental Investigation of Small Amplitude Self-Sustained Pitch-Plunge Oscillations of a NACA0012 Airfoil at Transitional Reynolds Numbers”, 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee, Jan 9-12, 2012 (abstract submitted).

W. Yuan, B. Wang, D. Poirel, “Simulations of Limit-cycle Oscillations of Airfoils at Transitional Reynolds Numbers”, 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee, Jan 9-12, 2012 (abstract submitted).

M. Khalil, D. Poirel, and A. Sarkar, “Probabilistic Prediction of Flutter Instability from Subcritical Measurement Data”, 11th US National Congress of Computational Mechanics, USNCCM11, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, July 25-29, 2011 (abstract submitted).

M. Khalil, D. Poirel, and A. Sarkar, “Probabilistic Parameter Estimation of Nonlinear Systems from Experimental Data”, 11th US National Congress of Computational Mechanics, USNCCM11, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, July 25-29, 2011 (abstract submitted).

M. Khalil, D. Poirel, and A. Sarkar, “Parameter Estimation of a Fluttering Aeroelastic System in the Transitional Reynolds Number Regime”, International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics 2011, Paris, June 26-30, 2011.

M. Khalil, D. Poirel, and A. Sarkar, “Application of Bayesian Inference to the Flutter Margin Method – New Developments”, International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics 2011, Paris, June 26-30, 2011.

M. Khalil, D. Poirel, and A. Sarkar, “Probabilistic Prediction of Dynamic Instability from Subcritical Measurement Data: Application to Flutter Analysis”, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, EMI 2011, Boston, June 2-4, 2011.

M. Khalil, D. Poirel, and A. Sarkar, “Parameter Estimation of a Fluttering Aeroelastic System in the Transitional Reynolds Number Regime”, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, EMI 2011, Boston, June 2-4, 2011.

F. Mendes, D. Poirel, A. Benaissa, “Experimental Investigation of Self-Sustained Pitch-Plunge Aeroelastic Oscillations of a NACA0012 Airfoil at Transitional Reynolds Numbers”, CASI 57th Annual Conference and 14th Aerodynamic Symposium, Montréal, April 26-28, 2011.

D. Rudmin, A. Benaissa, and D. Poirel, “Structure of the Near Wake of an Airfoil Pitching in a Free and a Forced Motion in Transitional Reynolds Number”, CASI 57th Annual Conference and 14th Aerodynamic Symposium, Montréal, April 26-28, 2011.

B. Wang, D. Poirel, and W. Yuan, “Numerical Simulation of Self-sustained Oscillations of an Airfoil at a Transitional Reynolds Number Using High Order Schemes”, 52nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Denver, Colorado, Apr. 4-7, 2011.

M. Khalil, D. Poirel, and A. Sarkar, “Application of Bayesian Inference to the Flutter Margin Method – New Developments”, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, EMI 2010, Los Angeles, August 8-11, 2010.

M. Khalil, D. Poirel, and A. Sarkar, “Parameter Estimation of a Fluttering Aeroelastic System in the Transitional Reynolds Number Regime”, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, EMI 2010, Los Angeles, August 8-11, 2010.

A. Matachniouk, D. Poirel, and A. Sarkar, “Effect of Parameter Uncertainties on Coalescence Flutter”, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, EMI 2010, Los Angeles, August 8-11, 2010.

A. Fereidooni, D. Poirel, A. Sarkar, A. Benaissa, V. Métivier, and G. Dumas, “Non-Stationary Signal Analysis of the von Kármán Vortex Shedding in the Wake of a Fluttering Airfoil”, 7th International Symposium FSI2 & FIV+N, 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, Montreal, August1-4, 2010.

M. Khalil, D. Poirel, and A. Sarkar, “Application of Bayesian Inference to the Flutter Margin Method – New Developments”, 7th International Symposium FSI2 & FIV+N, 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, Montreal, August1-4, 2010.

M. Khalil, D. Poirel, and A. Sarkar, “Parameter Estimation of a Fluttering Aeroelastic System in the Transitional Reynolds Number Regime”, 7th International Symposium FSI2 & FIV+N, 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, Montreal, August1-4, 2010.

D. Rudmin, A. Benaissa, D. Poirel, and X. Collin, “Study of Near Wake Flow Structure of a Pitching Airfoil”, CSME Forum, Victoria, Canada, June 7-9, 2010.

M. Khalil, D. Poirel and A. Sarkar, “Parameter Estimation of Stochastic Aeroelastic Systems From Wind Tunnel Data: A Sequential Data Assimilation Approach”, 10th US National Congress of Computational Mechanics, Columbus, Ohio, July 16-19, 2009.

V. Métivier, G. Dumas and D. Poirel, “Simulations of Self-Excited Pitch Oscillations of a NACA 0012 Airfoil in the Transitional Reynolds Number Regime”, 39th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, San Antonio, Texas, June 22-25, 2009.

M. Khalil, D. Poirel, A. Sarkar and S. Dunn, “Application of Bayesian estimation technique to the Flutter Margin method”, International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics, Seattle, WA, June 21-25, 2009.

V. Métivier, G. Dumas and D. Poirel, “Effects of Inertia and Boundary Layer Tripping on Aeroelastic, Self-excited Pitch Oscillations of an Airfoil”, 56th CASI Aeronautics Conference and Annual General Meeting, Ottawa, ON, May 5-7, 2009.

D. Poirel and W. Yuan, “Aerodynamic Moment of Self-Sustained, Small Amplitude, Oscillations of an Airfoil at Rec = 77,000”, 26th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 18-21, 2008.

V. Métivier, G. Dumas and D. Poirel, “Simulations of Self-Excited Pitch Oscillations of a NACA 0012 Airfoil in the Transitional Reynolds Number Regime”, CSME/SCGM, Ottawa, Canada, June 5-8, 2008.

D. Poirel, “Wing LCO at Transitional Re Numbers”, NATO RTO Symposium AVT-152 on Limit-Cycle Oscillations and other Amplitude-Limited, Self-Excited Vibrations, Loen, Norway, May 5-8, 2008.

W. Yuan, M. Khalid, D. Poirel and A. Benaissa, “Low-Reynolds-Number Effects on Airfoil Oscillations”, 25th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Miami, FL, June 25-28, 2007.

H. Harris and D. Poirel, “Aerodynamic Moment Analysis of an Aeroelastic NACA 0012 Airfoil Oscillating in Pitch at Transitional Reynolds Numbers”, 21st Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, Toronto, ON, June 3 - 7, 2007.

V. Jovanovic, D. Poirel, A. Benaissa and K. Kenway, "Spectral Characteristics in the Wake of a Self-Sustained Oscillating Airfoil at Transitional Reynolds Numbers“, 21st Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, Toronto, ON, June 3 - 7, 2007.

D. Poirel, Y. Harris and A. Benaissa, “Self-Excited Oscillations of a NACA 0012 Airfoil in the Transitional Reynolds Number Regime, Part 1 – Aeroelastic Investigation”, CASI 54th Annual Conference and 12th Aerodynamic conference, Toronto, ON, April 25-26, 2007.

D. Poirel, A. Benaissa, W. Yuan and M. Khalid, “Self-Excited Oscillations of a NACA 0012 Airfoil in the Transitional Reynolds Number Regime, Part 2 – Aerodynamic Analysis”, CASI 54th Annual Conference and 12th Aerodynamic conference, Toronto, ON, April 25-26, 2007.

A. Benaissa and D. Poirel, “Study of Wake Flow Structure of a Self-Sustained Oscillation Airfoil”, ICAMEM2006 - 3rd International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Hammamet, Tunisia, December 17-19, 2006.

D. Poirel, Y. Harris and A. Benaissa, “Aeroelastic Dynamics of a NACA0012 Airfoil in the Transitional Reynolds Regime”, 2006 Summer Conference of the ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Division, 6th FSI, AE & FIV+N Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, July 23-27, 2006.

W. Yuan, M. Khalid, D. Poirel and A. Benaissa, “A Numerical Investigation of Low-Frequency Airfoil Oscillations at Low Reynolds Numbers”, 14th Annual Conference of the CFD Society of Canada, Kingston, Canada, July 16-18, 2006.

A. Benaissa, D. Faux and D. Poirel, “Effect of Airfoil Motion Due to Airflow on Aerodynamic Forces”, 8th FLUCOME International Symposium on Fluid Control, Measurement and Visualization, Chengdu, China, August 22-25, 2005.

A. Ania, D. Poirel, M.J. Potvin, S. Montminy and G. Desmarais, "Martian Flight Prototypes”, 56th International Astronautical Congress, Fukuoka, Japan, October 17-21, 2005.

D. Poirel, “A Numerical Investigation of the Bifurcation Characteristics of a 2D Nonlinear Airfoil in Turbulent Flow”, The Fourth European & African Conference on Wind Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic, July 11-15, 2005.

S. Dunn, M. Brenner, J. Cooper, C. Denegri, L. Huttsell, I. Kaynes, R. Lind, D. Poirel, W. Silva and R. Yurkovich, "Progress on an International Collaborative Program on Improved Procedures for the Analysis of Flight Flutter Test Data ”, International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics 2005, Munich, Germany, June 28-July 01, 2005.

D. Poirel and S. Dunn, “Flutter Margin Method Accounting for Modal Parameter Uncertainties ”, International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics 2005, Munich, Germany, June 28-July 01, 2005.

D. Poirel and S.J. Price, “Multi-Modal Probability Structure of a LCO with Random Excitation- Application to an Airfoil”, 20th Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, Montreal, QC, May 30 - June 02, 2005.

D. Poirel and Y. Harris, “Low Frequency Aeroelastic Oscillations at Low Reynolds Numbers”, 20th Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, Montreal, QC, May 30 - June 02, 2005.

A. Ania, D. Poirel, M.J. Potvin and S. Montminy, “Flapping Wing Devices for Mars Exploration”, The Inaugural CDEN Design Conference, Montréal, Canada, July 29-30, 2004.

A. Benaissa, D. Faux, D. Poirel and J. Lemay, “Effect of Coherent Structures in a Turbulent Flow on Forces on an Airfoil Behind a Grid”, 7th Triennial International Symposium on Fluid Control, Measurement and Visualization, Sorrento, Italy, August 2003.

D. Poirel, M. Clément, H. Bouchard and R. Vaivads, "Qualification of an Experimental Aeroelastic Apparatus at RMC”, CASI 49th Annual Conference, Montréal, Canada, April 2003.

D. Faux, A. Benaissa, D. Poirel and J. Lemay, “Study of the Unsteady Aerodynamic Forces Over an Airfoil in a Turbulent Flow”, CASI 49th Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, April 2003.

W. Allan, A. Benaissa, S. Guellouz and D. Poirel, “Programmes de recherche en aérodynamique, aéroélasticité et transfert de chaleur au CMR”, Les 4ièmes journées tunisiennes sur les écoulements et les transferts, Hammamet, Tunisia, December 2002.

D. Poirel and S.J. Price, "Random Bifurcations: Analysis of a Nonlinear Airfoil in Turbulent Flow", CASI 48th Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, May 2001.

D. Poirel and S.J. Price, "Dynamic Behavior of a Structurally Non-linear Airfoil in Atmospheric Turbulence", AIAA-99-1473-CP, AIAA 40th Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, St-Louis, MO, April 1999.

D. Poirel and S.J. Price, "A Numerical Investigation of the Stability and Post-flutter Response of a 2D Nonlinear Airfoil in Longitudinal Atmospheric Turbulence", AIAA-96-1341-CP, AIAA 37th Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, pp. 204-214, April 1996.

D. Poirel and N. Landry, "DND Flutter Clearance Methodology - The CF-18/480 USG EFT Category II Experience", CASI 40th Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, May 1993.

D. Poirel and P. Brousseau, "Aircraft Battle Damage Repair - Flight Dynamic Implications - Program Preliminaries", CASI 3rd Symposium in Aerodynamics, Toronto, ON, November 1991.

B. Lee, D. Brown, M. Zgela and D. Poirel, "Wind Tunnel Investigation and Flight Tests of Tail Buffet on the CF-18 Aircraft", AGARD Conference on Aircraft Dynamic Loads Due to Flow Separation, AGARD-CP-483, pp. 1-1 to 1-26, September 1990.