Numerical investigation of flow control over an airfoil with synthetic jets and its optimization

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Akçayöz, Eray

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In this work, an active flow control method is studied numerically by using a synthetic jet over a NACA 0015 airfoil. Unsteady, turbulent flows over the NACA 0015 airfoil are computed using a Navier-Stokes solver. The Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model is employed in all computations. Unsteady flow solutions are computed in parallel using Parallel Virtual Machine library routines in a computer cluster. The synthetic jet is implemented to the flow solver as a boundary condition. Response Surface Methodology is employed for the optimization of synthetic jet parameters at various angles of attack. The synthetic jet parameters; the jet velocity, the jet location, the jet angle and the jet frequency are optimized to maximize the lift to drag ratio. The optimization study is performed for a constant value of jet power coefficient. The jet slot size is used as a dependent parameter in the optimization studies. The optimization study has shown that the jet velocity and the jet location are the dominant synthetic jet parameters. The optimum synthetic jet angle is observed to be increasing as the angle of attack increases. The optimum jet location is observed to be moving through the leading edge as angle of attack increases for the separated flows. It is observed that the application of the synthetic jet delays the flow separation on the suction side of the airfoil and increases the lift to drag ratio significantly especially at post stall angles of attack. The application of the synthetic jet is observed to be less effective for attached flows.

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Aerospace engineering., Flow control.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12609979/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/17837

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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E. Akçayöz, “Numerical investigation of flow control over an airfoil with synthetic jets and its optimization,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.