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Effects of Jet Induced by String-type Plasma Actuator on Flow Around Three-Dimensional Bluff Body and Drag Force

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  • Takatoshi Matsubara

    (Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo 125-8585, Japan
    Research Institute for Energy Conservation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ibaraki 305-8564, Japan)

  • Yoshiki Shima

    (Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo 125-8585, Japan
    Research Institute for Energy Conservation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ibaraki 305-8564, Japan)

  • Hikaru Aono

    (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo 125-8585, Japan
    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, Shinshu University, Nagano 386-8567, Japan)

  • Hitoshi Ishikawa

    (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo 125-8585, Japan)

  • Takehiko Segawa

    (Research Institute for Energy Conservation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ibaraki 305-8564, Japan)

Abstract

An experimental investigation of active flow control on a three-dimensional (3D) curved surface bluff body was conducted by using a string-type plasma actuator. The 3D bluff body model tested in this study was composed of a quarter sphere and a half cylinder, and the Reynolds number based on the diameter of half cylinder was set at 1.3 × 10 4 . The modulation drive was adopted for flow control, and the control effects of variations in dimensionless burst frequency ( f m + ) normalized by the width of the model and freestream velocity were studied. Velocity distributions analyzed by particle image velocimetry showed that the recirculation region behind the model shrank due to the flow control. The static pressure distributions on the back surface of the model tended to decrease under any f m + set in this study, especially in the ranges of 0.40 ≤ f m + ≤ 0.64. The drag coefficient reached its maximum value under the similar ranges of f m + . Although the aerodynamic wake sharpening was observed due to the flow control, the entrainment of separated flow into the back surface of the model was enhanced. This scenario of wake manipulation was considered to be responsible for increasing drag acting on the model.

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  • Takatoshi Matsubara & Yoshiki Shima & Hikaru Aono & Hitoshi Ishikawa & Takehiko Segawa, 2020. "Effects of Jet Induced by String-type Plasma Actuator on Flow Around Three-Dimensional Bluff Body and Drag Force," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-20, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:13:y:2020:i:4:p:872-:d:321451
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