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Characteristics of drag-reduced turbulent boundary layers with pulsed-direct-current plasma actuation. (English) Zbl 1461.76262

Summary: Experiments were performed using an active flow control approach that has shown the ability to significantly reduce the viscous drag in turbulent boundary layers. The purpose of this work was to document the changes in the turbulence characteristics of the boundary layer with the drag reduction. The flow control involved generating a steady spanwise velocity component of the order of \(u_\tau\), within the sublayer using an array of pulsed-DC plasma actuators. The intent was to reduce the wall-normal vorticity component, \(\omega_y\), that is associated with the mean flow distortion caused by quasi-steady streamwise vorticity associated with the wall streak structure first observed by S. Kline et al. [“The structure of turbulent boundary layers”, ibid. 30, 741–773 (1967; Zbl 1461.76274)]. The significance of the \(\omega_y\) comes from W. Schoppa and F. Hussain [ibid. 453, 57–108 (2002; Zbl 1141.76408)], who proposed an autonomous mechanism for self-sustained wall turbulence generation of which the sublayer wall-normal vorticity component is a critical parameter. The results document the characteristics of a turbulent boundary layer in which the viscous drag was reduced by 68%. This involved measurements of the \(u\) and \(v\) velocity components in a three-dimensional region within the boundary layer using a pair of dual (X) hot-wire probes. Under the reduced drag, these documented a decrease in \(u\) and \(v\) turbulence intensity levels through most of the boundary layer. When scaled by \(u_\tau\), the impact on the \(v\) fluctuations was larger than that on the \(u\) fluctuations. Analysis based on \([uv]\) quadrant splitting documented a decrease in duration, and an increase in the time between ‘ejections’ (Q2) and ‘sweep’ (Q4) events that substantially lowered the near-wall turbulence production in the drag-reduced boundary layers. Conditional averages used to reconstruct the two- and three-dimensional coherent motions including \(\lambda_2\) vortical structures, indicate a suppression of coherent features in the wall layer. These results are consistent with an underlying mechanism for drag reduction that comes from a suppression of the turbulence producing events in the wall layer associated with the wall streak structure.

MSC:

76F40 Turbulent boundary layers
76X05 Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow
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