scholarly journals Active flow control over a backward-facing step using plasma actuation

2016 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 354-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Ruisi ◽  
H. Zare-Behtash ◽  
K. Kontis ◽  
R. Erfani
Keyword(s):  
Flow Control ◽  
Active Flow Control ◽  
Backward Facing Step ◽  
Plasma Actuation ◽  
Active Flow

Active Flow Control of Flapping Airfoil Using Openfoam

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-372
Author(s):  
Vedulla Manoj Kumar ◽  
Chin-Cheng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Flow Control ◽  
Active Flow Control ◽  
Lift Coefficient ◽  
Unsteady Motion ◽  
Plasma Actuators ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Plasma Actuation ◽  
Reduced Frequency ◽  
Flapping Airfoil ◽  
Active Flow

ABSTRACTThe concept of the fixed wing Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) has received increasing interest over the past few decades, with the principal aim of carrying out the surveillance missions. The design of the flapping wing MAVs still is in infancy stage. On the other hand, there has been increasing interest over the flow control using plasma actuators in worldwide. The aim of this research is to study the flow control of a flapping airfoil with and without plasma actuation in OpenFOAM. The OpenFOAM CFD platform has been used to develop our own plasma solver. For the plasma induced turbulence in the flow regime, k-ε turbulence model was adopted to address the interaction between plasma and fluid flows. For the plasma-fluid interaction, we use reduced-order modelling to solve the plasma induced electric force. A two dimensional NACA0012 flapping airfoil without plasma actuation study has been benchmarked with previous published literature. We have not only focused on the active flow control but also analyzed the important parameter reduced frequency at different values, those are 0.1, 0.05 and 0.025. Reduced frequency (κ) is very important parameter of an airfoil in the unsteady motion. Our major contribution is testing the several reduced frequencies with the plasma actuation. The positive and beneficial effects of the plasma actuator for all cases have been observed. From the observed results, the flapping with plasma actuation at reduced frequency of 0.1 showed the 14.285 percent lift improvement and the 16.19 percent drag reduction than the flapping without plasma actuation at the respective dynamic stall angles. The maximum lift coefficient is increased with the increase in reduced frequency. In overall, plasma actuators are effective in the flow control of a flapping airfoil. In future, the combination of the flapping with plasma actuators will be a promising application to boast the maneuverability of MAVs.

Active Flow Control With an Oscillating Backward Facing Step in a Shallow Open Channel

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sertac Cadirci ◽  
Hasan Gunes
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Flow Control ◽  
Flow Separation ◽  
Open Channel ◽  
Recirculation Zone ◽  
Active Flow Control ◽  
Computational Domain ◽  
Backward Facing Step ◽  
Induced Flow ◽  
Active Flow

An oscillatory, zero-net-mass flux actuator system, Jet and Vortex Actuator (JaVA), is implemented on the step wall of a backward facing step. JaVA can energize the boundary layer by creating jets or vortices thus it may delay flow separation when used properly. The main part of JaVA is a rectangular cavity with a moving actuator plate. The actuator plate is mounted asymmetrically inside the cavity of the JaVA box, such that there are one narrow and one wide gap between the plate and the box. The main governing parameters are the actuator plate’s width (b), the amplitude (a) and the operating frequency (f). The main target of the control with active jets on the step wall is to influence directly the main recirculation zone, thus as the actuator plate or the step’s vertical wall moves periodically in horizontal direction, a jet emerges into the recirculation zone. Non-dimensional numbers such as the scaled amplitude (Sa = 2πa/b) and the jet Reynolds number (ReJ = 4abf/ν) as well as the cross flow parameter characterize the JaVA-induced flow types and the effects on the recirculation zone. One period consists of one blowing and one suction phase into the recirculation zone. Boundary layer profiles extracted from time-averaged flow fields of the not actuated (f = 0) and actuated cases at various operating frequencies indicate the effect of active flow control. The interaction between JaVA-induced flow regimes and the boundary layer is investigated numerically in an open channel with a BFS. The computational domain consists of a moving zone along the channel and the motion of the actuator plate is generated by a moving grid imposing appropriate boundary conditions with User-Defined-Functions and the calculations are carried out by a commercial finite-volume-based unsteady, laminar, incompressible Navier-Stokes solver. Numerical simulations and comparisons reveal the JaVA-boundary layer interaction for various governing parameters. Reynolds numbers based on the step height for the shallow open channel flow are Reh = 225 and 450. The proposed control method based on suction and blowing with an oscillating vertical step seems to be effective in shortening the recirculation zone length and delaying the flow separation downstream of the backward facing step.

Active Flow Control With an Oscillating Backward Facing Step

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sertac Cadirci ◽  
Hasan Gunes
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Flow Control ◽  
Flow Separation ◽  
Recirculation Zone ◽  
Active Flow Control ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Operating Frequency ◽  
Backward Facing Step ◽  
Active Flow

An oscillatory, zero-net-mass flux actuator system, Jet and Vortex Actuator (JaVA), is implemented on the step wall of a backward facing step. JaVA is shown previously both experimentally and numerically that it can energize the boundary layer by creating jets or vortices thus it may delay flow separation when used properly. The main part of JaVA is a rectangular cavity with a moving actuator plate. The actuator plate is mounted asymmetrically inside the cavity of the JaVA box, such that there are one narrow and one wide gap between the plate and the box. The main governing parameters are the actuator plate’s width (b), the amplitude (a) and the operating frequency (f). The main target of the control with active jets on the step wall is to influence directly the main recirculation zone, thus as the actuator plate or the step’s vertical wall moves periodically in horizontal direction, a jet emerges into the recirculation zone. Non-dimensional numbers such as the scaled amplitude (Sa = 2πa/b) and the jet Reynolds number (ReJ = 4abf/ν) as well as the maximum cross flow velocity characterize the JaVA-induced flow types and effects on the recirculation zone. One period consists of one blowing and one suction phase into the recirculation zone. The actuator plate has a sinusoidal motion determined by the amplitude and the operating frequency. Time-averaged flow fields and boundary layer profiles for actuated and not actuated cases at various operating frequencies indicate the effect of active flow control. The control effectiveness is given by the ratio of the jet Reynolds number to the Reynolds number of the incoming flow (r = ReJ/Re). A transient finite-volume-based laminar, incompressible Navier-Stokes solver (Fluent) has been used to study the flow fields generated by JaVA. The computational domain consists of a moving zone along the channel and the motion of the actuator plate is generated by a moving grid imposing appropriate boundary conditions with User-Defined-Functions (UDF). Numerical simulations reveal the JaVA-boundary layer interaction in the narrow channel for various governing parameters such as frequencies (jet Reynolds numbers) and channel flow velocities (Reynolds numbers, Re = 200, 400 and 800). The proposed control method based on suction and blowing with an oscillating backward facing step (OsBFS) seems to be effective in shortening the recirculation zone length and delaying the flow separation downstream of the backward facing step.

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