Effects of single synthetic jet on turbulent boundary layer

The turbulent boundary layer (TBL) is actively controlled by the synthetic jet generated from a circular hole. According to the datasets of velocity fields acquired by a time-resolved particle image velocimetry (TR-PIV) system, the average drag reduction rate of 6.2% in the downstream direction of the hole is obtained with control. The results of phase averaging show that the synthetic jet generates one vortex pair each period and the consequent vortex evolves into hairpin vortex in the environment with free-stream, while the reverse vortex decays rapidly. From the statistical average, it can be found that a low-speed streak is generated downstream. Induced by the two vortex legs, the fluid under them converges to the middle. The drag reduction effect produced by the synthetic jet is local, and it reaches a maximum value at x⁺=400, where the drag reduction rate reaches about 12.2%. After the extraction of coherent structure from the spatial two-point correlation analysis, it can be seen that the synthetic jet suppresses the streamwise scale and wall-normal scale of the large scale coherent structure, and slightly weakens the spanwise motion to achieve the effect of drag reduction.     

Experimental investigation on drag reduction in a turbulent boundary layer with a submerged synthetic jet

This work investigates the active control of a fully developed turbulent boundary layer by a submerged synthetic jet actuator.The impacts of the control are explored by measuring the streamwise velocities using particle image velocimetry,and reduction of the skin-friction drag is observed in a certain range downstream of the orifice.The coherent structure is defined and extracted using a spatial two-point correlation function,and it is found that the synthetic jet can efficiently reduce the streamwise scale of the coherent structure.Proper orthogonal decomposition analysis reveals that large-scale turbulent kinetic energy is significantly attenuated with the introduction of a synthetic jet.The conditional averaging results show that the induction effect of the prograde vortex on the low-speed fluid in a large-scale fluctuation velocity field is deadened,thereby suppressing the bursting process near the wall.     

柔性旋涡发生器对翼型前缘分离的自适应控制

采用边长为10 mm的三角形柔性和刚性旋涡发生器，安装在二维NACA0018翼型上翼面前缘不同弦长处，用于控制翼型前缘分离流动.实验在低速直流式风洞中进行，以翼型弦长为特征长度的Reynolds数Re=1.1×105，采用单丝热线风速仪测量尾流速度剖面.分别研究柔性和刚性两种材料的三角形旋涡发生器对翼型前缘分离的控制效果.实验结果表明，与刚性旋涡发生器相比，柔性旋涡发生器利用来流能量实现自适应控制，使剪切层下移，从而明显抑制前缘分离.      

湍流边界层等动量区演化机理的实验研究

等动量区是瞬时流场中流体动量接近的局部区域,其生成和分布与相干结构密切相关. 对等动量区的研究有助于更深入认识湍流边界层相干结构,但目前对其演化过程还缺乏实验支持和机理分析. 设计并使用移动式高时间分辨率粒子图像测速技术(TRPIV)系统对光滑平板湍流边界层进行了跟踪测量,用滤波方式对数据进行降噪,结合对直接数值模拟数据的插值结果,获得脉动速度信号. 使用改进方法去掉非湍流的影响,检测边界层内的等动量区,得到其数量的时间序列,结合流向速度概率密度函数分布的变化,分析得出了等动量区的数量在大的时间尺度下从一个稳态到另一个稳态的阶梯状变化特点. 分解不同尺度的脉动速度,对大尺度和小尺度脉动信号进行条件平均,发现大尺度脉动对等动量区数量变化起主要作用,表现为不同速度流体通过发生不同猝发事件改变流向速度概率密度函数分布. 分析流向大尺度脉动空间分布的变化,发现等动量区内常含有多个大尺度脉动区域,不同区域的扩张、收缩、分裂、合并影响流向速度的集中程度,进而导致等动量区数量的变化.