The effect of acoustic excitation in reducing laminar separation over two-dimensional airfoils at low angles of attack is investigated experimentally. Airfoils of two different cross sections, each with two different chord lengths, are studied in the chord Reynolds number range of 25,000 is less than R sub c is less than 100,000. While keeping the amplitude of the excitation induced velocity perturbation a constant, it is found that the most effective frequency scales as U (sup 3/2)(sub infinity). The parameter St/R (sup 1/2)(sub c), corresponding to the most effective f sub p for all the cases studied, falls in the range of 0.02 to 0.03, St being the Strouhal number based on the chord.


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    Title :

    Control of laminar separation over airfoils by acoustic excitation


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    Conference:

    Aerospace Sciences Meeting ; 1989 ; Reno, NV, United States


    Publication date :

    1988-01-01


    Type of media :

    Report


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    No indication


    Language :

    English


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