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 …

Fabrication of durable superhydrophobic surfaces using PDMS and beeswax for drag reduction of internal turbulent flow

H Pakzad, M Liravi, A Moosavi, A Nouri-Borujerdi… - Applied Surface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays, one of the biggest concerns in the world is increasing the CO 2 emissions and
global warming due to the over-consumption of fossil fuels. In addition, under the intense …

Hydrodynamic noise reduction mechanism of a superhydrophobic surface with different slip velocities

C Niu, Y Liu, D Shang, Q Qin, W Liu - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2022 - Elsevier
Although superhydrophobic surfaces can change the flow regime of the boundary layer,
most studies have focused on microscale channel flow. In this work, we use the slip …

Drag reduction of turbulent boundary layer over sawtooth riblet surface with superhydrophobic coat

J Hu, Z Yao - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The application of drag reduction tech holds great significance to energy saving. To achieve
better drag reduction, we investigated the flow characteristics of the turbulent boundary layer …

Active control for drag reduction of turbulent channel flow based on convolutional neural networks

BZ Han, WX Huang - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
An active controller based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is designed for drag
reduction of turbulent channel flow. CNNs are constructed to predict the normal velocities on …

Drag reduction induced by superhydrophobic surfaces in turbulent pipe flow

R Costantini, JP Mollicone, F Battista - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The drag reduction induced by superhydrophobic surfaces is investigated in a turbulent pipe
flow. Wetted superhydrophobic surfaces are shown to trap gas bubbles in their asperities …

Reynolds number effect on drag control via spanwise wall oscillation in turbulent channel flows

J Yao, X Chen, F Hussain - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The effect of Reynolds number (Re τ) on drag reduction using spanwise wall oscillation is
studied through direct numerical simulation of incompressible turbulent channel flows with …

Turbulent drag reduction in Taylor-Couette flows using different super-hydrophobic surface configurations

MS Naim, MF Baig - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Turbulent drag reduction (DR) in an incompressible Taylor-Couette flow configuration using
different patterns of “idealized” superhydrophobic surfaces (SHS) on rotating inner-wall is …

Sustainability of the plastron on nano-grass-covered micro-trench superhydrophobic surfaces in high-speed flows of open water

N Yu, A McClelland, FJ del Campo Melchor… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
This paper studies the sustainability of plastrons on superhydrophobic (SHPo) surfaces
made of longitudinal micro-trenches covered by nano-grass with the main interest on …

[HTML][HTML] Superhydrophobic surfaces to reduce form drag in turbulent separated flows

JP Mollicone, F Battista, P Gualtieri, CM Casciola - AIP Advances, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The drag force acting on a body moving in a fluid has two components, friction drag due to
fluid viscosity and form drag due to flow separation behind the body. When present, form …