Airfoil friction drag reduction based on grid-type and super-dense array plasma actuators

Ziqi FANG; Haohua ZONG; Yun WU; Hua LIANG; Zhi SU

doi:10.1088/2058-6272/ad0c99

Plasma Science and Technology > 2024 > 26(2): 025503. > DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ad0c99

Ziqi FANG, Haohua ZONG, Yun WU, Hua LIANG, Zhi SU. Airfoil friction drag reduction based on grid-type and super-dense array plasma actuators[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2024, 26(2): 025503. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ad0c99

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Airfoil friction drag reduction based on grid-type and super-dense array plasma actuators

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School of Aerospace Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, People’s Republic of China
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School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, People’s Republic of China
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National Key Lab of Aerospace Power System and Plasma Technology, Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an 710038, People’s Republic of China

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Haohua ZONG: haohua_zong@126.com

Yun WU: wuyun1223@126.com
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Haohua ZONG, haohua_zong@126.com

Yun WU, wuyun1223@126.com
Received Date: May 24, 2023
Revised Date: September 04, 2023
Accepted Date: September 05, 2023
Available Online: February 01, 2024
Published Date: February 04, 2024

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To improve the cruise flight performance of aircraft, two new configurations of plasma actuators (grid-type and super-dense array) were investigated to reduce the turbulent skin friction drag of a low-speed airfoil. The induced jet characteristics of the two actuators in quiescent air were diagnosed with high-speed particle image velocimetry (PIV), and their drag reduction efficiencies were examined under different operating conditions in a wind tunnel. The results showed that the grid-type plasma actuator was capable of producing a wall-normal jet array (peak magnitude: 1.07 m/s) similar to that generated in a micro-blowing technique, while the super-dense array plasma actuator created a wavy wall-parallel jet (magnitude: 0.94 m/s) due to the discrete spanwise electrostatic forces. Under a comparable electrical power consumption level, the super-dense array plasma actuator array significantly outperformed the grid-type configuration, reducing the total airfoil friction drag by approximately 22% at a free-stream velocity of 20 m/s. The magnitude of drag reduction was proportional to the dimensionless jet velocity ratio (r), and a threshold r = 0.014 existed under which little impact on airfoil drag could be discerned.
- plasma actuator,
- flow control,
- drag reduction,
- airfoil

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