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Numerical Simulation of a Synthetic Jet with OpenFOAM

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Numerical simulations of flow surrounding a synthetic jet actuating device are presented. By modifying a dynamic mesh technique available in OpenFOAM, a well-documented open-source solver for fluid dynamics, detailed computations of the sinusoidal motion of the synthetic jet diaphragm were possible. Numerical solutions were obtained by solving the two dimensional incompressible viscous N–S equations, with the use of a second order implicit time marching scheme and a central finite volume method for spatial discretization in both streamwise and crossflow directions. A systematic parameter study is reported here, in which the external Reynolds number, the diaphragm amplitude and frequency, and the slot dimensions are varied.

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  1. School of Aeronautics, Universidad politècnica de Madrid, Pza. Cardenal Cisneros 3, E-28040, Madrid, Spain

    Qiong Liu & Vassilis Theofilis

  2. Institute of Computer Science Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas (FORTH), GR70013, Heraklion, Greece

    Asimina Kazakidi

  3. University of São Paulo, Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos EESC, São Carlos-SP, 13566-590, Brazil

    Marcello A. F. Medeiros

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  1. School of Aerospace Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Vassilis Theofilis

  2. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, and Department of Aeronautical Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Julio Soria

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Liu, Q., Kazakidi, A., Medeiros, M.A.F., Theofilis, V. (2015). Numerical Simulation of a Synthetic Jet with OpenFOAM. In: Theofilis, V., Soria, J. (eds) Instability and Control of Massively Separated Flows. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 107. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06260-0_29

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