Flow control for unmanned air vehicles

D Greenblatt, DR Williams - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The pervasiveness of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), from insect to airplane scales,
combined with active flow control maturity, has set the scene for vehicles that differ markedly …

A review on electrohydrodynamic (EHD) pump

Y Peng, D Li, X Yang, Z Ma, Z Mao - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, functional fluidic and gas electrohydrodynamic (EHD) pumps have received
considerable attention due to their remarkable features, such as simple structure, quiet …

Recent advances in electrohydrodynamic pumps operated by ionic winds: a review

MJ Johnson, DB Go - Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
An ionic or electric wind is a bulk air movement induced by electrohydrodynamic (EHD)
phenomena in a gas discharge. Because they are silent, low power, respond rapidly, and …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments in thermal characteristics of surface dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators driven by sinusoidal high-voltage power

X Zhang, Z Yugang, Y Chun - Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2023 - Elsevier
Flow control using surface Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) plasma actuators driven by a
sinusoidal alternating-current power supply has gained significant attention from the …

Barrier discharges in science and technology since 2003: a tribute and update

R Brandenburg, KH Becker, KD Weltmann - Plasma Chemistry and …, 2023 - Springer
An update to the article “Dielectric-barrier Discharges: Their History, Discharge Physics, and
Industrial Applications” by Ulrich Kogelschatz from 2003 is given. The research and …

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 …

Quasi-DC electrical discharge characterization in a supersonic flow

A Houpt, B Hedlund, S Leonov, T Ombrello… - Experiments in …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract A Quasi-DC (Q-DC) electrical discharge generates a highly transient filamentary
plasma in high-speed airflow. Major specific properties of this type of discharge are realized …

Surface-charge control strategy for enhanced electrohydrodynamic force in dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators

S Sato, K Mitsuhashi, T Enokido… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A relationship between electric potential distribution on a dielectric surface and
electrohydrodynamic (EHD) force generation is experimentally investigated to improve the …

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 …

Optimization of dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators for icing control

H Hu, X Meng, J Cai, W Zhou, Y Liu, H Hu - Journal of Aircraft, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
ICING is regarded as a severe safety issue for the industry, such as aviation and wind
energy in cold weather, because it will degrade the performance when supercooled water …