Turbulent drag reduction over air- and liquid- impregnated surfaces

Brian J. Rosenberg; Tyler Van Buren; Matthew K. Fu; Alexander J. Smits

doi:10.1063/1.4939272

Turbulent drag reduction over air- and liquid- impregnated surfaces

Brian J. Rosenberg, Tyler Van Buren, Matthew K. Fu, Alexander J. Smits

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Results on turbulent skin friction reduction over air- and liquid-impregnated surfaces are presented for aqueous Taylor-Couette flow. The surfaces are fabricated by mechanically texturing the inner cylinder and chemically modifying the features to make them either non-wetting with respect to water (air-infused, or superhydrophobic case), or wetting with respect to an oil that is immiscible with water (liquid-infused case). The drag reduction, which remains fairly constant over the Reynolds number range tested (100 ≤ Re_τ ≤ 140), is approximately 10% for the superhydrophobic surface and 14% for the best liquid-infused surface. Our results suggest that liquid-infused surfaces may enable robust drag reduction in high Reynolds number turbulent flows without the shortcomings associated with conventional superhydrophobic surfaces, namely, failure under conditions of high hydrodynamic pressure and turbulent flow fluctuations.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	015103
Journal	Physics of Fluids
Volume	28
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4939272
State	Published - Jan 1 2016

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Computational Mechanics
Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes

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