Patent ID: 11905983
Assignee: DEEP SCIENCE, LLC
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  B  H  Y | IPC B  F  H

Claim 14:
15. A method for controlling a property of a fluid that flows over a surface, the method comprising:
obtaining a streamwise length scale and a convective time scale of a flow regime of the fluid that flows over the surface at least partially based on a sensor input,
wherein the streamwise length scale is a function of a viscous length scale, η, of the flow regime of the fluid, and wherein the convective time scale is a function of a viscous time scale, η′, of the flow regime of the fluid;
determining an operation of a dielectric-barrier discharge (DBD) device based on the streamwise length scale and the convective time scale of the flow regime to control a flow property of the flow regime of the fluid; and
operating the DBD device according to the determined operation to provide momentum in a spanwise direction to the flow regime of the fluid that flows over the surface to adjust the flow property of the flow regime of the fluid.