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Development and Application of Plasma Actuators for Active Control of High-Speed and High Reynolds Number FlowsActive flow control is often used to manipulate flow instabilities to achieve a desired goal (e.g. prevent separation, enhance mixing, reduce noise, etc.). Instability frequencies normally scale with flow velocity scale and inversely with flow length scale (U/l). In a laboratory setting for such flow experiments, U is high, but l is low, resulting in high instability frequency. In addition, high momentum and high background noise & turbulence in the flow necessitate high amplitude actuation. Developing a high amplitude and high frequency actuator is a major challenge. Ironically, these requirements ease up in application (but other issues arise).
Document ID
20100018563
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Sammy, Mo
(Ohio State Univ. OH, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
February 1, 2010
Publication Information
Publication: Minnowbrook VI: 2009 Workshop on Flow Physics and Control for Internal and External Aerodynamics
Subject Category
Aerodynamics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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