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Experiments have been carried out investigating the effectiveness of steady tangential blowing (inside the separation bubble) to control an axisymmetric separated flow at low speeds. Turbulent boundary separation was induced on a contoured afterbody and the separated shear layer reattached on a narrow cylindrical sting. Measurements made consisted of model surface pressures, mean velocity, turbulent shear stress and kinetic energy profiles using a 2-component LDV system. The results explicitly demonstrate that blowing downstream of the separation location, but within the bubble, can be an effective means of separation control, considering both wall and wake flow reversals.
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Received: 16 October 1998/Accepted: 27 September 1999
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Viswanath, P., Ramesh, G. & Madhavan, K. Separation control by tangential blowing inside the bubble. Experiments in Fluids 29, 96–102 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003480050431
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