Recent developments in DBD plasma flow control

JJ Wang, KS Choi, LH Feng, TN Jukes… - Progress in aerospace …, 2013 - Elsevier
Flow control using DBD (dielectric-barrier-discharge) plasma actuators is a relatively new,
but rapidly expanding area of research. There are a number of review papers available on …

Towards in-flight applications? A review on dielectric barrier discharge-based boundary-layer control

J Kriegseis, B Simon… - Applied …, 2016 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Active control of laminar boundary layers with dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma
actuators (PAs) has made considerable progress in the last 15 years. First pioneering …

Diagnostics for characterisation of plasma actuators

M Kotsonis - Measurement Science and Technology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The popularity of plasma actuators as flow control devices has sparked a flurry of diagnostic
efforts towards their characterisation. This review article presents an overview of …

High-lift airfoil trailing edge separation control using a single dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator

J Little, M Nishihara, I Adamovich, M Samimy - Experiments in fluids, 2010 - Springer
Control of flow separation from the deflected flap of a high-lift airfoil up to Reynolds numbers
of 240,000 (15 m/s) is explored using a single dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma …

Power consumption, discharge capacitance and light emission as measures for thrust production of dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators

J Kriegseis, S Grundmann, C Tropea - Journal of Applied Physics, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
A new procedure of determining the time resolved capacitance of a plasma actuator during
operation is introduced, representing a simple diagnostic tool that provides insight into the …

Dielectric-barrier-discharge vortex generators: characterisation and optimisation for flow separation control

TN Jukes, KS Choi - Experiments in fluids, 2012 - Springer
We investigated the use of dielectric-barrier-discharge plasma actuators as vortex
generators for flow separation control applications. Plasma actuators were placed at a yaw …

Three-dimensional flow measurements induced from serpentine plasma actuators in quiescent air

RJ Durscher, S Roy - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents three-dimensional flow measurements performed on a dielectric barrier
discharge (DBD) actuator with the electrodes in a serpentine design. Such a configuration …

Three-dimensional simulations of discharge plasma evolution on a dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator

H Nishida, T Nonomura, T Abe - Journal of Applied Physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
To develop simulation techniques for reconstructing microdischarges in a dielectric barrier
discharge (DBD) plasma actuator and analyze spanwise non-uniformity in a body force field …

Study of the flow induced by a sliding discharge

R Sosa, É Arnaud, E Mémin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we report on electrical and fluid-dynamics studies concerning the flow induced
by a sliding discharge (SD). This kind of discharge was created with a three electrode …

Drag reduction of circular cylinder using linear and sawtooth plasma actuators

L Wang, MM Alam, Y Zhou - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The flow around a single circular cylinder modified by the Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD)
plasma actuator is investigated experimentally at a Reynolds number Re= 5.25× 10 3. The …