Body Force Calculation of Steady-State Plasma Flow with Accurate Pressure Measurement

What is it about?

Pressure field of plasma flow induced by SDBD plasma actuators in quiescent air is very slight and difficult to measure accurately, . To solve for this issue, a special pressure measurement system is designed. The measured pressure field from the experiment is regarded as the source term and substituted into Navier-Stokes equations to calculate the body force distribution. The experimental and computational results show that the pressure term is the critical factor of body force distribution and therefore could not be ignored.

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