Imperial College London

ProfessorJonathanMorrison

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Aeronautics

Professor of Experimental Fluid Mechanics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 5067j.morrison Website

 
 
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Location

 

CAGB315City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Oxlade:2020,
author = {Oxlade, AR and Morrison, JF},
title = {Open-loop control of an axisymmetric turbulent wake using high-frequency periodic jet blowing},
year = {2020}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - CPAPER
AB - We show that high-frequency periodic jet blowing can be used to increase the base pressure of a bullet-shaped body with a turbulent axisymmetric wake by as much as 35%. A detailed investigation of the effects of forcing is made using random and phase-locked 2C PIV, and modal decomposition of dynamic pressure measurements on the base of the model. In contrast to other studies using periodic jet forcing, for example those discussed in [1], this control strategy does not target specific local or global wake instabilities. Instead, the high-frequency jet creates a row of closely spaced vortices which appear to act as a buffer between the wake and separating flow, thereby inhibiting the entrainment of fluid from the separating boundary. The resulting pressure recovery is proportional to the strength of the vortices produced by the jet, and is accompanied by a broadband suppression of base pressure fluctuations associated with all modes. We will show that the optimum forcing frequency is roughly six times the frequency of the shear layer mode, where excitation of the shear layer mode approaches unity gain. We also observe that despite being subject to an axisymmetric perturbation, the forced wake does not exhibit statistical axisymmetry.
AU - Oxlade,AR
AU - Morrison,JF
PY - 2020///
TI - Open-loop control of an axisymmetric turbulent wake using high-frequency periodic jet blowing
ER -