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 …

Magnetic fluid film enables almost complete drag reduction across laminar and turbulent flow regimes

LM Stancanelli, E Secchi, M Holzner - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
In the race to curb energy and oil consumption, zeroing of wall frictional forces is highly
desirable. The turbulent skin friction drag at the solid/liquid interface is responsible for …

Experimental control of turbulent boundary layers with in-plane travelling waves

J Bird, M Santer, JF Morrison - Flow, turbulence and combustion, 2018 - Springer
The experimental control of turbulent boundary layers using streamwise travelling waves of
spanwise wall velocity, produced using a novel active surface, is outlined in this paper. The …

Analysis of a drag reduced flat plate turbulent boundary layer via uniform momentum zones

W Li, D Roggenkamp, V Paakkari, M Klaas… - Aerospace Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
High spatial resolution particle-image velocimetry (PIV) and micro-particle tracking
velocimetry (μ-PTV) measurements have been performed to analyze the flow structures in a …

Turbulent drag reduction by spanwise traveling ribbed surface waves

W Li, W Jessen, D Roggenkamp, M Klaas… - European Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
The combination of passive and active drag reduction techniques is investigated by particle-
image velocimetry (PIV) and micro-particle tracking velocimetry (μ-PTV) measurements. To …

Laminar and turbulent flows over hydrophobic surfaces with shear-dependent slip length

S Khosh Aghdam, P Ricco - Physics of Fluids, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Motivated by extensive discussion in the literature, by experimental evidence and by recent
direct numerical simulations, we study flows over hydrophobic surfaces with shear …

Parametric investigation of friction drag reduction in turbulent flow over a flexible wall undergoing spanwise transversal traveling waves

W Li, D Roggenkamp, T Hecken, W Jessen… - Experiments in …, 2018 - Springer
Active friction drag reduction by spanwise transversal traveling surface waves is investigated
experimentally in a fully developed zero-pressure gradient (ZPG) turbulent boundary layer …

Laminar boundary layer forcing with active surface deformations

B Gibeau, S Ghaemi - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
We experimentally evaluate the use of active wall-normal surface deformations as a method
of actuation for the control of wall-bounded flows. Circular surface deformations are …

Active control of compressible channel flow up to using direct numerical simulations with spanwise velocity modulation at the walls

M Ruby, H Foysi - GAMM‐Mitteilungen, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Active turbulence control has been pursued continuously for the last decades, striving for an
altered, energetically more favorable flow. In this article, our focus is on a promising method …