Recent developments in DBD plasma flow control

JJ Wang, KS Choi, LH Feng, TN Jukes… - Progress in aerospace …, 2013 - Elsevier
Flow control using DBD (dielectric-barrier-discharge) plasma actuators is a relatively new,
but rapidly expanding area of research. There are a number of review papers available on …

Towards in-flight applications? A review on dielectric barrier discharge-based boundary-layer control

J Kriegseis, B Simon… - Applied …, 2016 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Active control of laminar boundary layers with dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma
actuators (PAs) has made considerable progress in the last 15 years. First pioneering …

On the formation of streamwise vortices by plasma vortex generators

TN Jukes, KS Choi - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2013 - cambridge.org
The streamwise vortices generated by dielectric-barrier-discharge plasma actuators in the
laminar boundary layer were investigated using particle image velocimetry to understand …

Altering the wake dynamics of a circular cylinder with harmonic forcing

K Joshi, B Latrobe, S Bhattacharya - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The time-averaged velocity profile in the wake of a circular cylinder resembles a “U” type or
a “V” type profile due to a velocity defect. Bhattacharya and JW Gregory [“The effect of …

Performance recovery of plasma actuators in wet conditions

AJ Lilley, S Roy, L Michels, S Roy - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Plasma actuators have been extensively studied for flow control applications over the past
two and a half decades. While these studies have been traditionally focused on …

Effect of the discharge constriction in DBD plasma actuator on the laminar boundary layer

I Moralev, V Sherbakova, I Selivonin, V Bityurin… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The effect of a dielectric barrier discharge at an increased power level on the structure of a
two-dimensional subsonic boundary layer is studied. It is shown that the formation of high …

Mathematical modeling of the vortex shedding structure and sound pressure level of a large wind turbine tower

SM Mousavi, R Kamali - International Journal of Applied Mechanics, 2020 - World Scientific
The level of noise emission of a circular cylinder, especially a tower of a wind turbine, is
remarkably dependent on vortex shedding behind the body of the tower. For these …

Drag reduction of circular cylinder using linear and sawtooth plasma actuators

L Wang, MM Alam, Y Zhou - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The flow around a single circular cylinder modified by the Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD)
plasma actuator is investigated experimentally at a Reynolds number Re= 5.25× 10 3. The …

Flow control of a D-shaped bluff body using different DBD plasma actuators

Z Chen, CY Wen - Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
The control performance of a streamwise-oriented dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma
actuator, a set of plasma streamwise vortex generators (PSVGs), and a hybrid actuator of the …

Mechanism of vorticity generation in plasma streamwise vortex generators

M Wicks, FO Thomas, TC Corke, M Patel, AB Cain - AIAA Journal, 2015 - arc.aiaa.org
An experimental investigation into the mechanism of streamwise vorticity generation in an
array of plasma streamwise vortex generators is presented. The array is flush mounted to a …