Publications

Papers & presentations

Experimental work on dielectric barrier discharge actuators — momentum injection into external flow, plasma synthetic jets, and the thrust they produce. Research presented at IEEE, APS, and AIAA conferences.

01 Peer-reviewed journal articles

Journal articles

  1. 2025

    Thrust performance of axisymmetric dielectric barrier discharge plasma synthetic jets

    Benjamin Price, Anthony Tang, Igor Novosselov

    International Journal of Plasma Environmental Science and Technology · Vol. 19, No. 1, e01011 · 25 April 2025

    Experimental study of an axisymmetric dielectric-barrier-discharge plasma synthetic jet. The actuator pairs a circular embedded electrode with an exposed ring electrode to form an annular discharge that drives a converging wall jet, producing wall-normal momentum with zero net mass flux. Includes parametric electromechanical characterisation and direct thrust measurement.

    doi:10.34343/ijpest.2025.19.e01011 ↗

  2. 2024

    Dielectric barrier discharge actuators: Momentum injection into co-flow and counter-flow freestream

    A. Tang, N. Li, B. Price, A. Mamishev, A. Aliseda, I. Novosselov

    Journal of Electrostatics · Vol. 129, 103918 · 1 June 2024

    Experimental characterisation of momentum injection by DBD actuators into a freestream at Re = 35,000 and 75,000, in both co-flow and counter-flow configurations. Co-flow actuation thins the boundary layer; counter-flow actuation can trigger separation, with momentum displacement substantially exceeding the EHD jet momentum measured in quiescent air. Both effects diminish as external velocity increases.

    ScienceDirect ↗ arXiv:2304.00079 ↗

02 Conference presentations

Talks

Also presented at

  • IEEE ICOPS
  • APS
  • AIAA SciTech
  • UW ME Capstone Exposition

Research from this programme has been presented at IEEE, APS, and AIAA conferences, including the IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science.

03 Context

Reading the work

The 2024 Journal of Electrostatics paper establishes what a surface discharge does to a real boundary layer — the co-flow and counter-flow behaviour, and the non-dimensional criterion for when actuation matters.

The 2025 work moves to the axisymmetric geometry: an annular discharge producing wall-normal thrust with zero net mass flux, characterised parametrically so force can be tied to the power deposited in the discharge.

Together they are two halves of the same argument — that actuator performance can be predicted from geometry and drive conditions rather than discovered one build at a time. The dissertation extends that across materials and operating regimes.

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