IMPACT OF AIR MICROBLOWING THROUGH A PERMEABLE WALL ON A TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER
The effectiveness of air microblowing through a permeable wall to reduce a turbulent skin friction over a flat plate in an incompressible flow is studied experimentally and theoretically. The mass flow rate of the blowing air per unit area was varied within <i>Q</i> = 0−0.05. A consistent decrease in local skin friction is observed to occur both at the increasing blowing air mass flow rate and along the permeable sample length. No appreciable influence of nondimensional microhole diameter on skin-friction reduction along the length of permeable sample is observed. The experimental results are compared with data of calculation that carried out within the boundary-layer equations.