Review of flow-control devices for wind-turbine performance enhancement

MZ Akhter, FK Omar - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
It is projected that, in the following years, the wind-energy industry will maintain its rapid
growth over the last few decades. Such growth in the industry has been accompanied by the …

Current state and future trends in boundary layer control on lifting surfaces

J Svorcan, JM Wang, KP Griffin - Advances in Mechanical …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Successful flow control may bring numerous benefits, such as flow stabilization, flow
reattachment, separation delay, drag reduction, lift increase, aerodynamic performance …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancement of a cycloidal self-pitch vertical axis wind turbine performance through DBD plasma actuators at low tip speed ratio

A Benmoussa, JC Páscoa - International Journal of Thermofluids, 2023 - Elsevier
Harvesting a maximum power from wind turbines especially at low tip speed ratio still
remains a challenge. Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) suffer periodically from stall which …

Effect of dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator on the dynamic moment behavior of pitching airfoil at low Reynolds number

G Huang, Y Dai, C Yang, Y Wu, Y Xia - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the feasibility of using dielectric barrier discharge
plasma actuation for the pitch stability control of a National Advisory Committee for …

An experimental study on different plasma actuator layouts for aircraft icing mitigation

C Kolbakir, H Hu, Y Liu, H Hu - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
An experimental study was conducted to examine the effects of dielectric-barrier-discharge
plasma (DBD) actuator layout on the plasma-induced thermal characteristics and evaluate …

Influence of actuation parameters of multi-DBD plasma actuators on the static and dynamic behaviour of an airfoil in unsteady flow

MG De Giorgi, V Motta, A Suma - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to perform a numerical study regarding the implementation of
dielectric barrier discharge plasma micro-actuators for load alleviation on a NACA 23012 …

Quasi-stationary modeling of the DBD plasma flow control around airfoil

K Adamiak - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents the results of numerical simulation of a dielectric barrier discharge
(DBD) plasma actuator and shows its effectiveness to control air flow around the NACA …

Study on inner characteristics of plasma synthetic jet actuator and geometric effects

W Zhang, X Geng, Z Shi, S Jin - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
In order to further study the inner characteristics of the plasma synthetic jet actuator (PSJA)
which consists of a cavity, two electrodes and a lid with orifice, a two-dimensional numerical …

Flow control on a high-lift wing with microsecond pulsed surface dielectric barrier discharge actuator

B Wei, Y Wu, H Liang, Z Su, Y Li - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, microsecond pulsed surface dielectric barrier discharge (mSDBD) is utilized to
improve the aerodynamic characteristics of a high-lift wing. First, the characteristics of the …

Flow control around NACA0015 airfoil using a dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator over a wide range of the Reynolds number

S Sekimoto, K Fujii, M Anyoji, Y Miyakawa, S Ito… - Actuators, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this study, an experimental investigation of separation control using a dielectric barrier
discharge plasma actuator was performed on an NACA0015 airfoil over a wide range of …