The main objectives of this Virtual Collection of articles on modal analysis of fluid flows are to provide an educational service to nonspecialists seeking greater insight from a data set with modal decomposition/analysis methods and to minimize the barriers for implementation of these methods. This collection of articles consists of in-depth demonstrations of the modal decomposition methods for analysis, modeling, and control of fluid flows as well as the utility of modal decomposition methods for predictive and control-oriented modeling. The activities that led to this Virtual Collection were undertaken by the Modal Analysis of Aerodynamic Flows discussion group, under AIAA’s Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee.

Editors: Kunihiko Taira, Maziar S. Hemati, Lawrence S. Ukeiley

AIAAJ Editor-in-Chief: Alexander J. Smits