Final report
Dates and location
14 March — 16 March 2018, Delft, The Netherlands
Chairperson
Marios Kotsonis
Co-chairperson
Nico Benard
Conference fees
- Early registration fee: 300.00 €
- Late registration fee: 350.00 €
- Accompanying person: 100.00 €
What other funding was obtained?
The venue was rented through internal funds of TU Delft
What were the participants offered?
3 days conference, including lunches and drinks/snacks
Applicants (members)
- Matteo Chiatto
- Kwing-So Choi
- Vasilis Ioannou
- Stepan Tolkachev
- Xin ZHANG
Applicants (non members)
- ATILLA ALTINTAS
- Roozbeh Aslani
- Marco Belan
- Nicolas Benard
- He Chengjun
- Thomas Corke
- Maria Grazia De Giorgi
- Aleksandr Firsov
- Kozo Fujii
- Berkant Göksel
- Zhengfei Guo
- Marc Hehner
- Harry Hoeijmakers
- Marios Kotsonis
- Jochen Kriegseis
- Viviana Lago
- Sergey Leonov
- Annie LEROY
- ZHENBO LU
- Takashi Matsuno
- Takayuki Matsunuma
- Theodoros Michelis
- Ivan Moralev
- Eric MOREAU
- Ricardo Pereira
- Andrey Starikovskiy
- Kun Tang
- Longjun Wang
- Chi Wai Wong
- Srikar Yadala Venkata
- Pengyu YANG
- Junkai Yao
- Haohua Zong
Scientific report
The meeting was well received and requests from many participants were expressed towards re-organising something similar.
The topics covered through the presentations were:
Characterisation of plasma-based actuators
Characterisation studies are essential towards elucidating the underlying physical processes governing the operation of plasma actuators. Additionally, they provide insight into the effect of operational parameters (geometry, materials, electrical power etc.) on the performance of the actuator. Contributions focused on recent characterisation studies, encompassing mechanical, electrical and thermal properties of plasma actuators.
Mechanical (thrust and velocity) measurements (AC-DBD, DC corona, spark)
Electrical (power, discharge regime, spectroscopy) (all types) characterisation studies
Thermal characterisation (spark, ns-DBD)
Body-force extraction techniques (AC-DBD, DC-corona)
Influence of ambient conditions on performance (all types)
Development of plasma-based actuators
By extending the basic morphology of the different types of plasma actuators, several variations have been proposed, towards improving or altering the performance. Novel concepts based on new materials, geometries, power supplies etc. have been proposed. Additionally, attention was given to aspects such as reliability, robustness, and manufacturing techniques, which might not affect the performance of the actuators but certainly enhance their industrial application potential.
New actuation concepts (configuration, geometry, waveforms, power supplies)
New materials (electrodes, dielectrics)
New manufacturing techniques (printed actuators, deposition techniques, materials)
Modelling of plasma-based actuators
Numerical and theoretical modelling of the operation of plasma actuators is necessary towards understanding the dynamic plasma formation processes. Additionally, simplified models of the actuators (i.e. body force distributions for AC-DBD actuators) are indispensable for the account of their effect in CFD simulations. Work presented under this topic focused on a wide range of models spanning from analytical or phenomenological to highly complex first-principles models, for all types of plasma-based actuators.
Analytical and phenomenological models
Hybrid models
First-principles models
Application of plasma-based actuators
Finally, plasma actuators are intended for active flow control. In this topic, focus was given on application cases in laboratory and industrial conditions. The session will be cover laboratory flow control objectives, such as lift enhancement or drag reduction. Additionally, industrial application efforts were presented.
Lift and drag control
Laminar-turbulent transition control
Turbulent flow control
Noise and jet control
Wind energy applications
Internal flow applications
Industrial application cases
Number of participants from each country
Country | Participants |
---|---|
China | 7 |
Netherlands | 6 |
France | 4 |
Germany | 4 |
Italy | 3 |
United States | 3 |
Russia | 3 |
Japan | 3 |
United Kingdom | 2 |
Sweden | 1 |
Austria | 1 |
Singapore | 1 |
Total | 38 |