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Drag reduction due to spatial thermal modulations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2012

M. Z. Hossain ,
D. Floryan  and
J. M. Floryan
M. Z. Hossain
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B9, Canada
D. Floryan
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B9, Canada
J. M. Floryan*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B9, Canada
*
†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

It is demonstrated that a significant drag reduction for pressure-driven flows can be realized by applying spatially distributed heating. The heating creates separation bubbles that separate the stream from the bounding walls and, at the same time, alter the distribution of the Reynolds stress, thereby providing a propulsive force. The strength of this effect is of practical interest for heating with wavenumbers $\ensuremath{\alpha} = O(1)$ and for flows with small Reynolds numbers and, thus, it is of potential interest for applications in micro-channels. Explicit results given for a very simple sinusoidal heating demonstrate that the drag-reducing effect increases proportionally to the second power of the heating intensity. This increase saturates if the heating becomes too intense. Drag reduction decreases as ${\ensuremath{\alpha} }^{4} $ when the heating wavenumber becomes too small, and as ${\ensuremath{\alpha} }^{\ensuremath{-} 7} $ when the heating wavenumber becomes too large; this decrease is due to the reduction in the magnitude of the Reynolds stress. The drag reduction can reach up to 87 % for the heating intensities of interest and heating patterns corresponding to the most effective heating wavenumber.

JFM classification

Flow Control: Drag reduction Flow Control: Flow Control Low-Reynolds-number flows: Low-Reynolds-number flows
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 713 , 25 December 2012 , pp. 398 - 419
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©2012 Cambridge University Press

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Present address: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh.

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