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This study investigates a mechanism for controlling separated flows around an airfoil using a synthetic jet (SJ). A large-eddy simulation (LES) was performed for a leading-edge separation flow around an airfoil at the chord Reynolds number of 63 000 and the angle of attack of 12°. The present LES resolves a turbulent structure inside a deforming SJ cavity with a deforming grid. An optimal actuation-frequency band is identified between the normalized frequencies of F+=6.0 and 20, which suppresses the separation and drastically improves the lift-to-drag ratio. In the controlled flows, the laminar separation bubble near the leading edge periodically releases multiple spanwise-uniform vortex structures, which diffuse and merge to generate a single coherent vortex in the period of F+. Such a coherent vortex plays a significant role in exchanging a chordwise momentum between a near-wall surface and the freestream away from the wall. It also entrains smaller turbulent vortices and eventually enhances the turbulent component of the Reynolds stress throughout the suction surface. Linear stability theory (LST) was subsequently compared with the LES result, which clarifies the applicability o

Publisher

AIP Publishing

Published

2023

Language

EN