Flexible-Wall Turbulence Control for Drag Reduction on Streamlined and Bluff Bodies

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumon Sinha ◽  
Jari Hyvärinen
Keyword(s):  
Drag Reduction ◽  
Wall Turbulence ◽  
Bluff Bodies ◽  
Turbulence Control ◽  
Flexible Wall

scholarly journals Actuation response model from sparse data for wall turbulence drag reduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Fernex ◽  
Richard Semaan ◽  
Marian Albers ◽  
Pascal S. Meysonnat ◽  
Wolfgang Schröder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drag Reduction ◽  
Sparse Data ◽  
Wall Turbulence ◽  
Response Model

scholarly journals Global effect of local skin friction drag reduction in spatially developing turbulent boundary layer

2016 ◽  
Vol 805 ◽  
pp. 303-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Stroh ◽  
Y. Hasegawa ◽  
P. Schlatter ◽  
B. Frohnapfel
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Turbulent Boundary Layer ◽  
Drag Reduction ◽  
Control Region ◽  
Reduction Rate ◽  
Wall Turbulence ◽  
Local Skin ◽  
Control Schemes ◽  
Local Skin Friction ◽  
Friction Drag Reduction

A numerical investigation of two locally applied drag-reducing control schemes is carried out in the configuration of a spatially developing turbulent boundary layer (TBL). One control is designed to damp near-wall turbulence and the other induces constant mass flux in the wall-normal direction. Both control schemes yield similar local drag reduction rates within the control region. However, the flow development downstream of the control significantly differs: persistent drag reduction is found for the uniform blowing case, whereas drag increase is found for the turbulence damping case. In order to account for this difference, the formulation of a global drag reduction rate is suggested. It represents the reduction of the streamwise force exerted by the fluid on a plate of finite length. Furthermore, it is shown that the far-downstream development of the TBL after the control region can be described by a single quantity, namely a streamwise shift of the uncontrolled boundary layer, i.e. a changed virtual origin. Based on this result, a simple model is developed that allows the local drag reduction rate to be related to the global one without the need to conduct expensive simulations or measurements far downstream of the control region.

Flow Around Rectangular Cylinders With Trailing Jets

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srikanth B. Pidugu
Keyword(s):  
Drag Reduction ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Circular Cylinders ◽  
Bluff Bodies ◽  
Stagnation Region ◽  
Speed Flow ◽  
Commercial Code ◽  
Considerable Work ◽  
Rectangular Cylinders

The problem of flow past bluff bodies was studied extensively in the past. The problem of drag reduction is very important in many high speed flow applications. Considerable work has been done in this subject area in case of circular cylinders. The present study attempts to investigate the feasibility of drag reduction on a rectangular cylinder by flow injection from the rear stagnation region. The physical problem is modeled as two-dimensional body and numerical analysis is carried out with and without trailing jets. A commercial code is used for this purpose. Unsteady computation is performed in case of rectangular cylinders with no trailing jets where as steady state computation is performed when jet is introduced. It is found that drag can be reduced by introducing jets with small intensity in rear stagnation region of the rectangular cylinders.

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