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Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Published in: Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 4/2019

04-01-2019

Actively Reduced Airfoil Drag by Transversal Surface Waves

Authors: Marian Albers, Pascal S. Meysonnat, Wolfgang Schröder

Published in: Flow, Turbulence and Combustion | Issue 4/2019

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Abstract

The flow over a DRA2303 wing section at a Reynolds number of Re = 400,000 is actively controlled by spanwise traveling transversal surface waves. The actuated low-Mach number flow is investigated by a high-resolution large-eddy simulation. Approximately 74% of the solid surface on both sides of the wing section is deflected by a sinusoidal space- and time-dependent function in the wall-normal direction. The turbulence intensitites and wall-normal vorticity fluctuations are significantly reduced and a shift from one-dimensional turbulence to two-dimensional turbulence is observed. Besides a viscous drag reduction by 8.6% with a strong decrease of skin-friction in the favorable pressure gradient region and an overall drag decrease by 7.5%, a slight increase in lift is achieved for an external flow over a realistic geometry.
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Metadata
Title
Actively Reduced Airfoil Drag by Transversal Surface Waves
Authors
Marian Albers
Pascal S. Meysonnat
Wolfgang Schröder
Publication date
04-01-2019
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Flow, Turbulence and Combustion / Issue 4/2019
Print ISSN: 1386-6184
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1987
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-018-9998-z

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