Turbulent drag reduction by spanwise slot blowing pulsed plasma actuation

Borui ZHENG; Yuanzhong JIN; Minghao YU; Yueqiang LI; Bin WU; Quanlong CHEN

doi:10.1088/2058-6272/ac72e2

Plasma Science and Technology > 2022 > 24(11): 114003. > DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ac72e2

Borui ZHENG, Yuanzhong JIN, Minghao YU, Yueqiang LI, Bin WU, Quanlong CHEN. Turbulent drag reduction by spanwise slot blowing pulsed plasma actuation[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2022, 24(11): 114003. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ac72e2

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Turbulent drag reduction by spanwise slot blowing pulsed plasma actuation

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School of Automation and Information Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an 710048, People's Republic of China
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Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China
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The Green Aerotechnics Research Institute of Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 401120, People's Republic of China

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Borui ZHENG, E-mail: narcker@xaut.edu.cn
Received Date: January 28, 2022
Revised Date: April 24, 2022
Accepted Date: May 23, 2022
Available Online: December 05, 2023
Published Date: August 21, 2022

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Abstract

This work studies the turbulent drag reduction (TDR) effect of a flat plate model using a spanwise slot blowing pulsed plasma actuator (SBP-PA). Wind tunnel experiments are carried out under a Reynolds number of 1.445 × 10⁴. Using a hot-wire anemometer and an electrical data acquisition system, the influences of millisecond pulsed plasma actuation with different burst frequencies and duty cycles on the microscale coherent structures near the wall of the turbulent boundary layer (TBL) are studied. The experimental results show that the SBP-PA can effectively reduce the frictional drag of the TBL. When the duty cycle exceeds 30%, the TDR rate is greater than 11%, and the optimal drag reduction rate of 13.69% is obtained at a duty cycle of 50%. Furthermore, optimizing the electrical parameters reveals that increasing the burst frequency significantly reduces the velocity distribution in the logarithmic region of the TBL. When the normalized burst frequency reaches f⁺ = 2πf_pd/U_∞ = 7.196, the optimal TDR effectiveness is 16.97%, indicating a resonance phenomenon between the pulsed plasma actuation and the microscale coherent structures near the wall. Therefore, reasonably selecting the electrical parameters of the plasma actuator is expected to significantly improve the TDR effect.
- turbulent boundary layer control,
- plasma flow control,
- hot-wire,
- turbulent frictional drag,
- turbulent drag reduction

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The present study is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61971345 and 12175177) and the Foundation for Key Laboratories of National Defense Science and Technology of China (No. 614220120030810).

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