Reduction of turbulent boundary layer drag through dielectric-barrier-discharge plasma actuation based on the Spalding formula

Bin WU (武斌); Chao GAO (高超); Feng LIU (刘峰); Ming XUE (薛明); Yushuai WANG (王玉帅); Borui ZHENG (郑博睿)

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Plasma Science and Technology > 2019 > 21(4): 45501-045501. > DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/aaf2e2

Bin WU (武斌), Chao GAO (高超), Feng LIU (刘峰), Ming XUE (薛明), Yushuai WANG (王玉帅), Borui ZHENG (郑博睿). Reduction of turbulent boundary layer drag through dielectric-barrier-discharge plasma actuation based on the Spalding formula[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2019, 21(4): 45501-045501. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/aaf2e2

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Reduction of turbulent boundary layer drag through dielectric-barrier-discharge plasma actuation based on the Spalding formula

¹ Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, People’s Republic of China
² University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697-3975, United States of America
³ Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, People’s Republic of China

Funds: The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support received from the project ‘Drag Reduction via Turbulent Boundary Layer Flow Control (DRAGY)’. The DRAGY project (April 2016–March 2019) is a China–EU Aeronautical Cooperation project, which is co-funded by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), China, and the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), European Commission.

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Abstract It is a very difficult task to develop a method of reducing turbulent boundary layer drag. However, in recent years, plasma flow control technology has demonstrated huge potential in friction drag reduction. To further investigate this issue, a smooth plate model was designed as a testing object arranged with a bidirectional dielectric-barrier-discharge (DBD) plasma actuator. In addition, measurement of skin friction drag was achieved by applying hot wire anemometry to obtain the velocity distribution of the turbulent boundary layer. A method of quantifying the friction drag effect was adopted based on the Spalding formula fitted with the experiment data. When plasma actuation was conducted, a velocity defect occurred at the two measuring positions, compared with the no plasma control condition; this means that the DBD plasma actuation could reduce the drag successfully in the downstream of the actuator. Moreover, drag reduction caused by backward actuation was slightly more efficient than that caused by forward actuation. With an increasing distance from plasma actuation, the drag-reduction effect could become weaker. Experimental results also show that the improvement of drag-reduction efficiency using a DBD plasma actuator can achieve about 8.78% in the local region of the experimental flat model.
- DBD plasma actuator,
- flow control,
- Spalding formula,
- drag reduction,
- turbulent boundary layer

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