2012/05/07 by Justin Zito, Ryan Durscher, Jignesh Soni +2 · 2 citations
Engineering · Medicine · #Plasma and Flow Control in Aerodynamics #Plasma Applications and Diagnostics #Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation
paper · doi:10.1063/1.4712068
openalex publication_date 2012/05/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/26
Micron size dielectric barrier discharge actuators, designed for minimal footprint area and weight penalty, show a wall jet up to 2.0 m/s consuming 15 W/m of electrode. A torsional balance measures force up to 3 mN/m of electrode and demonstrates equivalent “thrust effectiveness” (induced force/power) to macroscale actuators. Compared with reported macroscale data, the microscale actuator shows a 31% increase in energy conversion efficiency. Per unit actuator mass, both the force and the velocity induced by microscale actuators show an order of magnitude (22.1 and 18.5 times, respectively) increase over macroscale actuators, making them suitable for distributed flow control applications.