Experimental assessment of drag reduction by traveling waves in a turbulent pipe flow
Experimental assessment of drag reduction by traveling waves in a turbulent pipe flow
We experimentally assess the capabilities of an active, open-loop technique for drag reduction in turbulent wall flows recently introduced by Quadrio et al. [J. Fluid Mech. 627, 161 (2009)]. The technique consists of generating streamwise-modulated waves of spanwise velocity at the wall, which travels in the streamwise direction. A proof-of-principle …