Author : Ghasemi Esfahani Ata
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)
Book Synopsis Physics and Control of Flow Over a Thin Airfoil Using Nanosecond Pulse DBD Actuators by : Ghasemi Esfahani Ata
Download or read book Physics and Control of Flow Over a Thin Airfoil Using Nanosecond Pulse DBD Actuators written by Ghasemi Esfahani Ata and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flow separation leading to stall imposes considerable performance penalties on lifting surfaces. Limitations in flight envelope and loss of control are among the chief reasons for the interest in the aeronautical research community for better understanding of this phenomenon. Modern flow control techniques explored in this work can potentially alleviate the performance penalties due to flow separation. Experiments were designed to investigate excitation of flow over an airfoil with leading edge separation at a post-stall angle of attack with nanosecond pulse dielectric barrier discharge actuators. The subject airfoil is designed with a small radius of curvature that potentially challenges the task of flow control as more centrifugal acceleration around leading is required to successfully reattach the flow. The Reynolds number based on the chord was fixed at 5·105, corresponding to a freestream flow of approximately 37 m/s. An angle of attack of 19° was used and a single plasma actuator was mounted near the leading edge of the airfoil. Fully separated flow on the suction side extended well beyond the airfoil with naturally shed vortices generated at a Strouhal number of 0.60. Excitation at very low to moderate (~1) Strouhal numbers at the leading edge generated organized coherent structures in the shear layer over the separated region with a shedding Strouhal number corresponding to that of the excitation, synchronizing the vortex shedding from leading and trailing edges. Excitation around the shedding Strouhal number promoted vortex merging while excitation at higher Strouhal numbers resulted in smaller, weaker structures that quickly developed and disintegrate over the airfoil. The primary mechanism of control is the excitation of instabilities associated with the vortices shed from leading edge. The excitation generates coherent large-scale structures that entrain high-momentum fluid into the separation region to reduce the separation and/or accelerate the flow over the airfoil and to modify the lift and drag properties. The baseline showed some spanwise non-uniformity both on and off the surface. Excitation at low Strouhal numbers (0.3
