Numerical study on the shape effect of synthetic jet actuators

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Abstract

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technique was adopted to investigate the shape effect synthetic jet actuators. Three different pulsation frequencies of 280Hz, 560Hz and 1120Hz at oscillating amplitudes of 80μm, 40μm and 20μm, respectively were performed. The doubling frequency with halved oscillating amplitude allowed theinvestigation to be carried out with fixed jet velocity over a cycle. The shape effect was investigated by varying aspect ratios of the synthetic jet actuator while fixing the cavity volume. Aspect ratio of 0.5, 1, and 2 were conducted where they represented a tall, square, and rectangular cavity. A sinusoidal fashion of the oscillatingdiagram was applied so that the synthetic jet actuator switched between expulsion and ingestion phases periodically. The generated vortices and jet flow were examined in detail in this paper. The cavity dimension affected the flowstructure and through investigation a relationship between cavity height and width versus vorticity was established.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 5th WCEA and 5th BMESH – 2020, Bangkok, Thailand, 14 - 16 December, 2020
EditorsLen Gelman, Vipin K. Tripathi, Nuttachat Wisittipanit
PublisherAsian Society for Research in Engineering Sciences
Pages1-7
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9788193706015
Publication statusPublished - 2020
EventWorld Congress on Engineering and Applications (5th : 2020) and International Conference on Business Management, Economics, Social Sciences and Humanities (5th : 2020) - Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: 14 Dec 202016 Dec 2020

Conference

ConferenceWorld Congress on Engineering and Applications (5th : 2020) and International Conference on Business Management, Economics, Social Sciences and Humanities (5th : 2020)
Abbreviated title5th WCEA and 5th BMESH –2020
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityBangkok
Period14/12/2016/12/20

Keywords

  • Synthetic Jet Actuator
  • Microchannel
  • Vortices
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics

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