Unsteady plasma actuators for separation control of low-pressure turbine blades

AIAA Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1477-1487

  Huang, Junhui ^a,b   Corke, Thomas C ^a,b,c   Thomas, Flint O ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b Center for Flow Physics and Control   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC BARRIER; HOT-WIRE MEASUREMENTS; OPTIMUM EXCITATION FREQUENCY; SEPARATION CONTROL; STROUHAL NUMBER;

ACTUATORS; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; PLASMA DEVICES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBINES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 33747083216     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.19243     Document Type: Article

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