Synthetic and Hybrid Synthetic Jet Actutators

Synthetic and Hybrid Synthetic Jet Actutators
Author: Jozef Kordík
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2013
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ISBN: 9783659329104

Synthetic jet actuators and hybrid synthetic actuators are investigated in this book from both theoretical and experimental points of view. The main property observed for synthetic jet actuators is the frequency behavior of the velocity amplitude at the nozzle output of the actuator. This behavior was studied previously in many other publications; however, most of these papers have focused on actuators constrained by short stream-wise dimensions. Based on experiments, this book also describes the properties of actuators with longer stream-wise dimensions and introduces new mathematical models to characterize them. Hybrid synthetic jets are quite similar to synthetic jets, but they differ in the rectification of the flow in the nozzle. The rectification is achieved by additional fluidic diodes incorporated to the actuator. A measure of the flow rectification is the volumetric efficiency. This book introduces a new design for this kind of actuator that is tested experimentally; a very high volumetric efficiency is found at the second velocity resonance of the actuator.

Hybrid Control of Jet Flows

Hybrid Control of Jet Flows
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
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The use of swirl and synthetic jet actuators in a hybrid control scheme is described. The results here are limited to the characterization of (1) swirling jet flows and (2) synthetic jets in a two-dimensional mixing layer. Jets with swirl numbers of 0.10 and 0.23 with different tangential velocity profiles were studied. The lower swirl jets behaved similarly to non-swirling jets, whereas the higher swirl jets enhanced mixing significantly, up to 40% for the cases studied here. At the nozzle exit, higher turbulence levels were observed in the swirling jets, and the investigation of the effect of swirl on turbulent structure continues. Synthetic jet actuators on the trailing edge of a splitter plate were studied in two orientations - aligned spanwise to the flow and aligned with the flow. The actuator oriented spanwise to the flow enhanced the streamwise vortices in the mixing layer yielding an increase in non-dimensional mixing layer growth rate of 53%, whereas the other orientation produced little change in the streamwise vortices and only produced a 19% increase.

Optimization of Synthetic Jet Actuators

Optimization of Synthetic Jet Actuators
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Total Pages: 12
Release: 2003
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This paper describes the optimization of a piezoelectric-driven synthetic jet actuator based on a Lumped Element Modeling (LEM). To simplify the problem, this papers splits the optimization problem into two parts. First, a constrained optimization of the cavity volume and orifice dimensions of two baseline synthetic jets, each with a given piezoelectric diaphragm, is conducted using two different objective functions. One seeks to improve the centerline output velocity over a broad frequency range, and the other maximizes the centerline velocity at a prescribed resonant frequency of the device. Significant improvements are achieved using both objective functions for both synthetic jets. Second, the two baseline piezoelectric diaphragms have been optimized using two configurations. One uses the standard inner-disc piezoceramic patch bonded to a metal shim, while the other employs an outer piezoceramic ring. In each case, the objective is to maximize the achievable volume displacement of the diaphragm at the coercive electric field strength of the piezoceramic, while the natural frequency of the piezoelectric diaphragm is constrained to be greater than or equal to the baseline designs. Both configurations yield modest (~5%) improvements for one diaphragm and significant improvements for the other diaphragm (>50%).