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Actively Reduced Airfoil Drag by Transversal Surface Waves

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The flow over a DRA2303 wing section at a Reynolds number of Re = 400,000 is actively controlled by spanwise traveling transversal surface waves. The actuated low-Mach number flow is investigated by a high-resolution large-eddy simulation. Approximately 74% of the solid surface on both sides of the wing section is deflected by a sinusoidal space- and time-dependent function in the wall-normal direction. The turbulence intensitites and wall-normal vorticity fluctuations are significantly reduced and a shift from one-dimensional turbulence to two-dimensional turbulence is observed. Besides a viscous drag reduction by 8.6% with a strong decrease of skin-friction in the favorable pressure gradient region and an overall drag decrease by 7.5%, a slight increase in lift is achieved for an external flow over a realistic geometry.

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The authors would like to thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for the funding of the research group FOR1779. Computing resources were provided by the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) and by the Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC) within a Large-Scale Project of the Gauss Center for Supercomputing (GCS).

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Albers, M., Meysonnat, P.S. & Schröder, W. Actively Reduced Airfoil Drag by Transversal Surface Waves. Flow Turbulence Combust 102, 865–886 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-018-9998-z

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