Investigation Of Scaling Effects For A Synthetic Jet Actuator Using High And Low Fidelity Analyses

Download or read book Investigation of Scaling Effects for a Synthetic Jet Actuator Using High and Low Fidelity Analyses written by Amandine Bourlier and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This research presents as investigation on the scaling effects for synthetic jet actuators using Ansys-CFX and a lumped element model (LEM) ... A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was created, using Ansys-CFX, to be validated against referred publications ... Finally a test case was conducted with both models, velocity profile was extracted for future use in application of controlled separated flow over an airfoil using an actuator and optimal excitation parameters were obtained. More recently, synthetic jet actuators have also been investigated for applications on micro-air vehicles [MAVs] as micro-jet propulsion. The last application has been specifically targeted in this project. In particular, the optimization of synthetic jet actuators could lead to the design of Micro Air Vehicles (MAV) equipped with an array of synthetic jets for a complete control of the vehicle."--Abstract, P. 4.