Superhydrophobic drag reduction in turbulent flows: A critical review

H Park, CH Choi, CJ Kim - Experiments in Fluids, 2021 - Springer
Superhydrophobic (SHPo) surfaces have been investigated vigorously since around 2000
due in large part to their unique potential for hydrodynamic frictional drag reduction without …

Bioinspired surfaces for turbulent drag reduction

KB Golovin, JW Gose, M Perlin… - … Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In this review, we discuss how superhydrophobic surfaces (SHSs) can provide friction drag
reduction in turbulent flow. Whereas biomimetic SHSs are known to reduce drag in laminar …

High-resolution velocity measurement in the inner part of turbulent boundary layers over super-hydrophobic surfaces

H Ling, S Srinivasan, K Golovin… - Journal of Fluid …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Digital holographic microscopy is used for characterizing the profiles of mean velocity,
viscous and Reynolds shear stresses, as well as turbulence level in the inner part of …

Reorganisation of turbulence by large and spanwise-varying riblets

S Endrikat, R Newton, D Modesti… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
We study the flow above non-optimal riblets, specifically large drag-increasing and two-
scale trapezoidal riblets. In order to reach large Reynolds numbers and large scale …

Liquid-infused surfaces as a passive method of turbulent drag reduction

MK Fu, I Arenas, S Leonardi… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Liquid-infused surfaces present a novel, passive method of turbulent drag reduction.
Inspired by the Nepenthes Pitcher Plant, liquid-infused surfaces utilize a lubricating fluid …

The common mechanism of turbulent skin-friction drag reduction with superhydrophobic longitudinal microgrooves and riblets

A Rastegari, R Akhavan - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
Turbulent skin-friction drag reduction with superhydrophobic (SH) longitudinal microgrooves
and riblets is investigated by direct numerical simulation (DNS), using lattice Boltzmann …

Drag reduction ability of slippery liquid-infused surfaces: A review

H Pakzad, A Nouri-Borujerdi, A Moosavi - Progress in Organic Coatings, 2022 - Elsevier
Devising effective methods to reduce drag forces is of great interest as these methods could
prevent the wastage of fuel and decrease carbon emission and the global warming rate …

Yield stress fluid flows in superhydrophobic channels: From creeping to inertial regime

H Rahmani, H Kumar, J Greener, SM Taghavi - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, inertial flows of a yield stress fluid in a channel equipped with a
superhydrophobic groovy wall are studied through numerical computations. Assuming an …

Turbulent flows over superhydrophobic surfaces: flow-induced capillary waves, and robustness of air–water interfaces

J Seo, R García-Mayoral, A Mani - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
Superhydrophobic surfaces can retain gas pockets within their microscale textures when
submerged in water. This property reduces direct contact between water and solid surfaces …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of textural statistics on drag reduction by scalable, randomly rough superhydrophobic surfaces in turbulent flow

A Rajappan, K Golovin, B Tobelmann, V Pillutla… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the influence of statistical measures of surface roughness on the turbulent
drag reduction (DR) performance of four scalable, randomly rough superhydrophobic (SH) …