On the mechanical efficiency of dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators

Journal article (2011)
Department
Aerodynamics & Wind Energy (Aerospace Engineering) (TU Delft)
Copyright: American Institute of Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/doi:10.1063/1.3597652
More Info
expand_more

Published Date

03-06-2011

Reuse Rights

Other than for strictly personal use, it is not permitted to download, forward or distribute the text or part of it, without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), unless the work is under an open content license such as Creative Commons.

Source:

Applied Physics Letters, 98 (22), 2011

Faculty

Aerospace Engineering

Department

Aerodynamics & Wind Energy

Abstract

The mechanical power production and electrical power consumption of the dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator is investigated for different operating conditions. The ratio of these two values delivers the mechanical efficiency of the actuator as a flow acceleration device. The general trend is that higher carrier frequencies and voltages lead to higher values of the efficiency. The values that were found for the mechanical efficiency are very small, the highest recorded value is only 0.18%.

Files

Giepman_2011.pdf
(pdf | 0.434 Mb)