Electrical and mechanical characteristics of surface AC dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators applied to airflow control

N Benard, E Moreau - Experiments in Fluids, 2014 - Springer
The present paper is a wide review on AC surface dielectric barrier discharge (DBD)
actuators applied to airflow control. Both electrical and mechanical characteristics of surface …

Dynamics of near-surface electric discharges and mechanisms of their interaction with the airflow

SB Leonov, IV Adamovich… - Plasma Sources Science …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The main focus of the review is on dynamics and kinetics of near-surface discharge
plasmas, such as surface dielectric barrier discharges sustained by AC and repetitively …

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 …

Diagnostics for characterisation of plasma actuators

M Kotsonis - Measurement Science and Technology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The popularity of plasma actuators as flow control devices has sparked a flurry of diagnostic
efforts towards their characterisation. This review article presents an overview of …

Fluid and hybrid modeling of nanosecond surface discharges: effect of polarity and secondary electrons emission

NY Babaeva, DV Tereshonok… - Plasma Sources Science …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we report on results from a computational investigation of nanosecond pulsed
surface discharges of positive and negative polarity using a 2D fluid and fluid-Monte Carlo …

Electrohydrodynamic force produced by a wire-to-cylinder dc corona discharge in air at atmospheric pressure

E Moreau, N Benard, JD Lan-Sun-Luk… - Journal of Physics D …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Wire-to-cylinder corona discharges are studied to better understand the
electrohydrodynamic (EHD) phenomena that govern the performances of electric propulsion …

Electrohydrodynamic thrust for in-atmosphere propulsion

N Monrolin, F Plouraboué, O Praud - AIAA Journal, 2017 - arc.aiaa.org
The electrohydrodynamic thrust generated by wire–cylinder electrodes under high dc
voltage is experimentally analyzed. Some recent experimental studies have shown that …

Characteristics of ionic wind in needle-to-ring corona discharge

Y Zhang, L Liu, Y Chen, J Ouyang - Journal of Electrostatics, 2015 - Elsevier
The characteristics of ionic wind of DC corona discharge are investigated in needle-to-ring
configuration. The effects of the discharge parameters including the voltage polarity, the …

Multifactorial effects of operating conditions of dielectric-barrier-discharge plasma actuator on laminar-separated-flow control

M Sato, H Aono, A Yakeno, T Nonomura, K Fujii… - AIAA journal, 2015 - arc.aiaa.org
A substantial number of large-eddy simulations are conducted on separated flow controlled
by a dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator at a Reynolds number of 63,000. In the …

Stokes-layer formation under absence of moving parts—A novel oscillatory plasma actuator design for turbulent drag reduction

MT Hehner, D Gatti, J Kriegseis - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
ABSTRACT A novel plasma actuator concept is proposed to mimic the effect of spanwise
wall oscillations without mechanically moving parts, where four groups of electrodes and …