Acceleration is the Key to Drag Reduction in Turbulent Flow
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| author | Ding, Liuyang Sabidussi, Lena Holloway, Brian C. Hultmark, Marcus Smits, Alexander J. |
| author_facet | Ding, Liuyang Sabidussi, Lena Holloway, Brian C. Hultmark, Marcus Smits, Alexander J. |
| contents | A turbulent pipe flow experiment was conducted where the surface of the pipe was oscillated azimuthally over a wide range of frequencies, amplitudes and Reynolds number. The drag was reduced by as much as 30\%. Past work has suggested that the drag reduction scales with the velocity amplitude of the motion, its period, or the Reynolds number. Here, we find that the key parameter is simply the acceleration, which reduces the complexity of the phenomenon by two orders of magnitude. This insight opens new potential avenues for reducing fuel consumption by large vehicles and for reducing energy costs in large piping systems. |
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| publishDate | 2023 |
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| spellingShingle | Acceleration is the Key to Drag Reduction in Turbulent Flow Ding, Liuyang Sabidussi, Lena Holloway, Brian C. Hultmark, Marcus Smits, Alexander J. Fluid Dynamics A turbulent pipe flow experiment was conducted where the surface of the pipe was oscillated azimuthally over a wide range of frequencies, amplitudes and Reynolds number. The drag was reduced by as much as 30\%. Past work has suggested that the drag reduction scales with the velocity amplitude of the motion, its period, or the Reynolds number. Here, we find that the key parameter is simply the acceleration, which reduces the complexity of the phenomenon by two orders of magnitude. This insight opens new potential avenues for reducing fuel consumption by large vehicles and for reducing energy costs in large piping systems. |
| title | Acceleration is the Key to Drag Reduction in Turbulent Flow |
| topic | Fluid Dynamics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12591 |