Energetic Flow Control

Abstract

The generation of plasmadynamic discharges for near surface aerodynamic application holds the promise of providing rapid and flexible steering control for advanced high speed flight vehicles. Effective manipulation of a flow field using flow control technologies can lead to a maneuverability, payload and range, as well as lowered cost. The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is investigating the time dependent fluid dynamic interactions between collocated pulsed jets in order to demonstrate a potentially revolutionary system for high speed flow control that leverages spark jet technology.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 20, 2011
Accession Number
ADA564707

Entities

People

  • Ashish Nedungadi
  • Bohdan C. Cybyk

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Engineers
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Hypervelocity Flow
  • Measurement
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Research Facilities
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Robotics and Automation.