scholarly journals Oscillating Wall Jets for Active Flow Control in a Laboratory Fume Hood—Experimental Investigations

Fluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
Juergen Liebsch ◽  
Christian Oliver Paschereit
Keyword(s):  
Flow Separation ◽  
Particle Image ◽  
Active Flow Control ◽  
Experimental Investigations ◽  
Wall Jet ◽  
Fume Hood ◽  
Wall Jets ◽  
Injection Volume ◽  
Image Velocimetry ◽  
Active Flow

Wall jets are applied to reduce flow separation and recirculation of the airflow entering the inner space of a laboratory fume hood through its front opening. The flow separation in the hood was further reduced by introducing a self-induced oscillatory motion using fluidic oscillators. The design of the oscillators integrated in the predetermined contour are based on numerical simulations. The effect of the steady and unsteady wall jet was investigated experimentally using flow visualization, particle image velocimetry (PIV), and containment measurements. The oscillatory wall-jet led to reduction of flow separation and recirculation even at lower injection volume flows. In consequence, the usage of fluidic oscillators for a laboratory fume hood increases the energy efficiency of the system without reducing the safety of the laboratory fume hood.

Experimental Investigations on the Efficiency of Active Flow Control in a Compressor Cascade With Periodic Non-Steady Outflow Conditions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Staats ◽  
Wolfgang Nitsche
Keyword(s):  
Flow Field ◽  
Flow Control ◽  
Flow Separation ◽  
Active Flow Control ◽  
Experimental Investigations ◽  
Compressor Cascade ◽  
Steady Regime ◽  
Stator Blade ◽  
Active Flow ◽  
The Impact

We present results of experiments on a periodically unsteady compressor stator flow of the type which would be expected in consequence of pulsed combustion. A Reynolds number of Re = 600000 was used for the investigations. The experiments were conducted on the two-dimensional low-speed compressor testing facility in Berlin. A choking device downstream the trailing edges induced a periodic non-steady outflow condition to each stator vane which simulated the impact of a pressure gaining combuster downstream from the last stator. The Strouhal number of the periodic disturbance was Sr = 0.03 w.r.t. the stator chord length. Due to the periodic non-steady outflow condition, the flow-field suffers from periodic flow separation phenomena, which were managed by means of active flow control. In our case, active control of the corner separation was applied using fluidic actuators based on the principle of fluidic amplification. The flow separation on the centre region of the stator blade was suppressed by means of a fluidic blade actuator leading to an overall time-averaged loss reduction of 11.5%, increasing the static pressure recovery by 6.8% while operating in the non-steady regime. Pressure measurements on the stator blade and the wake as well as PIV data proved the beneficial effect of the active flow control application to the flow field and the improvement of the compressor characteristics. The actuation efficiency was evaluated by two figures of merit introduced in this contribution.

The Effect of Orifice Angle and Cavity Dimension on Rectangular Synthetic Jet Actuators

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pooya Kabiri ◽  
Douglas G. Bohl ◽  
Goodarz Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Particle Image ◽  
Vortical Structure ◽  
Active Flow Control ◽  
Cross Flow ◽  
Synthetic Jet ◽  
Synthetic Jet Actuators ◽  
Image Velocimetry ◽  
Jet Actuators ◽  
Active Flow ◽  
Analytic Prediction

In the last decade, a great deal of interest has been focused on the application of synthetic jet actuators (SJA) for active flow control. SJAs delay separation by injecting vortex pairs into the cross flow and energizing the turbulent boundary layer. The goal of this study was to investigate the effects of the orifice angle on the performance of axisymmetric SJAs. The SJAs used in this experiment were composed of a piezoelectric (PZT) membrane, cavities and orifices. SJA’s with either a straight (90°) or angled (60°) orifices were characterized using hot-wire anemometry and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). It was found that the structure of the jet flow changed depending on the angle of the orifice with differences in the resulting vortical structure observed. The peak jet speed was found to be higher for the straight orifice than for the angled orifice contradicting the analytic prediction based on cavity dimension.

Particle image velocimetry of active flow control on a compressor cascade

2010 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 799-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Hecklau ◽  
R. van Rennings ◽  
V. Zander ◽  
W. Nitsche ◽  
A. Huppertz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Particle Image Velocimetry ◽  
Flow Control ◽  
Particle Image ◽  
Active Flow Control ◽  
Compressor Cascade ◽  
Image Velocimetry ◽  
Active Flow

Study of the airflow induced by a sliding discharge plasma actuator

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (02) ◽  
pp. 1950011
Author(s):  
Hao Dong ◽  
Zheng Li ◽  
Xi Geng ◽  
Zhiwei Shi ◽  
Qijie Sun
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Discharge ◽  
Particle Image ◽  
Discharge Plasma ◽  
Active Flow Control ◽  
Plasma Actuator ◽  
Ac Power ◽  
Image Velocimetry ◽  
New Type ◽  
Active Flow ◽  
Sliding Discharge

Sliding discharge, as a new type of electrical discharge, is being gradually applied in plasma active flow control in recent years. In this work, the particle image velocimetry (PIV) experiments were conducted to investigate the airflow characteristics induced by the sliding discharge plasma actuator at varied voltage signals. The results show that the integral thrust produced by the negative alternating current (AC) power is stronger than normal AC power under the same voltage magnitude. The induced airflow direction changes along with the changing of two power voltage signals. Furthermore, the angle of the induced airflow is mainly linear with the loading voltage.

High Efficiency Wind Turbine Using Co-Flow Jet Active Flow Control

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kewei Xu ◽  
Gecheng Zha
Keyword(s):  
Flow Control ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Flow Separation ◽  
Power Output ◽  
Pitch Angle ◽  
Active Flow Control ◽  
Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine ◽  
Negative Power ◽  
Freestream Velocity ◽  
Active Flow

Abstract This paper applies Co-flow Jet (CFJ) active flow control airfoil to a NREL horizontal axis wind turbine for power output improvement. CFJ is a zero-net-mass-flux active flow control method that dramatically increases airfoil lift coefficient and suppresses flow separation at a low energy expenditure. The 3D Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations with one-equation Spalart-Allmaras (SA) turbulence model are solved to simulate the 3D flows of the wind turbines. The baseline wind turbine is the NREL 10.06m diameter phase VI wind turbine and is modified to a CFJ blade by implementing CFJ along the span. The baseline wind turbine performance is validated with the experiment at three wind speeds, 7m/s, 15m/s, and 25m/s. The predicted blade surface pressure distributions and power output agree well with the experimental measurements. The study indicates that the CFJ can enhance the power output at the condition where angle of attack is increased to the level that conventional wind turbine is stalled. At the speed of 7m/s that the NREL turbine is designed to achieve the optimum efficiency at the pitch angle of 3°, the CFJ turbine does not increase the power output. When the pitch angle is reduced by 13° to −10°, the baseline wind turbine is stalled and generates negative power output at 7m/s. But the CFJ wind turbine increases the power output by 12.3% assuming CFJ fan efficiency of 80% at the same wind speed. This is an effective method to extract more power from the wind at all speeds. It is particularly useful at low speeds to decrease cut-in speed and increase power output without exceeding the structure limit. At the freestream velocity of 15m/s and the CFJ momentum coefficient Cμ of 0.23, the net power output is increased by 207.7% assuming the CFJ fan efficiency of 80%, compared to the baseline wind turbine due to the removal of flow separation. The CFJ wind turbine appears to open a door to a new area of wind turbine efficiency improvement and adaptive control for optimal loading.

scholarly journals Robust Calorimetric Micro-Sensor for Aerodynamic Applications

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (13) ◽  
pp. 794
Author(s):  
Cécile Ghouila-Houri ◽  
Célestin Ott ◽  
Romain Viard ◽  
Quentin Gallas ◽  
Eric Garnier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shear Stress ◽  
Flow Control ◽  
Flow Separation ◽  
Active Flow Control ◽  
Small Length ◽  
High Frequencies ◽  
Small Length Scale ◽  
Micro Sensor ◽  
Active Flow

This paper reports a calorimetric micro-sensor designed for aerodynamic applications. Measuring both the amplitude and the sign of the wall shear stress at small length-scale and high frequencies, the micro-sensor is particularly suited for flow separation detection and flow control. The micro-sensor was calibrated in static and dynamic in a turbulent boundary layer wind tunnel. Several micro-sensors were embedded in various configurations for measuring the shear stress and detecting flow separation. Specially, one was embedded inside an actuator slot for in situ measurements and twelve, associated with miniaturized electronics, were implemented on a flap model for active flow control experiments.

Organization of Cylinder Wake Using a Splitter-Plate Active Flow Control

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Weiland ◽  
Pavlos Vlachos
Keyword(s):  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Flow Control ◽  
Strouhal Number ◽  
Active Flow Control ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Splitter Plate ◽  
Cylinder Wake ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Image Velocimetry ◽  
Active Flow

Time Resolved Digital Particle Image Velocimetry (TRDPIV) was used in conjunction with spectral analysis to study the effects of Leading Edge Blowing (LEB) flow control on the near-wake of a circular cylinder. The airfoil was placed 1.9 circular cylinder diameters downstream, effectively acting as a splitter plate. Spectral measurements of the TRDPIV results indicated that the presence of the airfoil decreased the Strouhal number from 0.19 to 0.12 as anticipated. When activated the LEB jet organized the circular cylinder wake, effectively neutralizing the effect of the splitter plate and modifying the wake so as to return the Strouhal number to 0.19. Thus the circular cylinder wake returned to its normal shedding frequency, even in the presence of the airfoil. Evidence presented in this study supports the notion that the LEB jet directly excites the circular cylinder shear layers causing instability, roll up, and subsequent vortex shedding.

Simple frigate shape plasma flow control

2016 ◽  
Vol 230 (14) ◽  
pp. 2693-2699 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Bardera-Mora ◽  
A Conesa ◽  
I Lozano
Keyword(s):  
Flow Control ◽  
Active Flow Control ◽  
Plasma Actuators ◽  
Control Technique ◽  
Shape Model ◽  
Image Velocimetry ◽  
Barrier Discharge Plasma ◽  
Plasma Flow Control ◽  
Active Flow ◽  
Low Speed Wind Tunnel

This experimental investigation presents a new active flow control technique based on plasma actuators applied to a backward facing step whose structure is similar to that formed by the hangar and flight deck of small naval vessels. These experiments were carried out by testing a simple frigate shape model settled at 0° wind over deck in a low-speed wind tunnel. Two different configurations of dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator have been used to modify the flow downstream of the step. Results obtained investigating the flow by particle image velocimetry prove the capacity of plasma actuators by reducing instabilities and turbulence over the simple frigate shape model.

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