A review of turbulent skin-friction drag reduction by near-wall transverse forcing

P Ricco, M Skote, MA Leschziner - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
The quest for reductions in fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions in transport has been a
powerful driving force for scientific research into methods that might underpin drag-reducing …

Active control for wall drag reduction: Methods, mechanisms and performance

L Zhang, X Shan, T Xie - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Active reducing the skin friction drag of vehicles (such as missiles, rockets, aircraft, high-
speed train, submarines, etc.) during the navigation process can improve the respond speed …

Reynolds-number dependence of turbulent skin-friction drag reduction induced by spanwise forcing

D Gatti, M Quadrio - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
Reynolds-number dependence of turbulent skin-friction drag reduction induced by
spanwise forcing Page 1 J. Fluid Mech. (2016), vol. 802, pp. 553–582. c Cambridge …

Opposition control within the resolvent analysis framework

M Luhar, AS Sharma, BJ McKeon - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2014 - cambridge.org
This paper extends the resolvent analysis of McKeon & Sharma (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 658,
2010, pp. 336–382) to consider flow control techniques that employ linear control laws …

Quasisteady quasihomogeneous description of the scale interactions in near-wall turbulence

C Zhang, SI Chernyshenko - Physical Review Fluids, 2016 - APS
By introducing the notion of an ideal large-scale filter, a formal statement is given of the
hypothesis of the quasisteady quasihomogeneous nature of the interaction between the …

Performance losses of drag-reducing spanwise forcing at moderate values of the Reynolds number

D Gatti, M Quadrio - Physics of Fluids, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
A fundamental problem in the field of turbulent skin-friction drag reduction is to determine the
performance of the available control techniques at high values of the Reynolds number Re …

Modification of quasi-streamwise vortical structure in a drag-reduced turbulent channel flow with spanwise wall oscillation

A Yakeno, Y Hasegawa, N Kasagi - Physics of Fluids, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The conditional averaging technique is applied to quasi-streamwise vortices in order to
clarify the impact of their structural modification on the resultant drag reduction effect in a …

Predicting the response of turbulent channel flow to varying-phase opposition control: resolvent analysis as a tool for flow control design

SS Toedtli, M Luhar, BJ McKeon - Physical Review Fluids, 2019 - APS
The present study evaluates the capabilities of a low-order flow model based on the
resolvent analysis of McKeon and Sharma [BJ McKeon and AS Sharma, J. Fluid Mech. 658 …

Linear stability of Poiseuille flow over a steady spanwise Stokes layer

D Massaro, F Martinelli, P Schmid, M Quadrio - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
The temporal linear stability of plane Poiseuille flow modified by spanwise forcing applied at
the walls is considered. The forcing consists of a stationary streamwise distribution of …

Turbulent drag reduction through rotating discs

P Ricco, S Hahn - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2013 - cambridge.org
An active technique for friction drag reduction in a turbulent channel flow is studied by direct
numerical simulations. The flow modification is induced by the steady rotation of rigid flush …