Influence of Textural Statistics on Drag Reduction by Scalable, Randomly Rough Superhydrophobic Surfaces in Turbulent Flow

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dc.contributor.authorRajappan, A.
dc.contributor.authorGolovin, K.
dc.contributor.authorTobelmann, B.
dc.contributor.authorPillutla, Venkata
dc.contributor.authorAbhijeet
dc.contributor.authorChoi, Wonjae
dc.contributor.authorTuteja, A.
dc.contributor.authorMckinley, G. H.
dc.contributor.utdAuthorPillutla, Venkata
dc.contributor.utdAuthorAbhijeet
dc.contributor.utdAuthorChoi, Wonjae
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-25T21:11:29Z
dc.date.available2020-02-25T21:11:29Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-22
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dc.description.abstractWe investigate the influence of statistical measures of surface roughness on the turbulent drag reduction (DR) performance of four scalable, randomly rough superhydrophobic (SH) textures. Each surface was fabricated using readily scalable surface texturing processes to generate a random, self-affine height profile on the base substrate. The frictional drag on all four SH surfaces was measured when fully submerged in shear-driven turbulent flow inside a bespoke Taylor-Couette apparatus at Reynolds numbers in the range 1 × 10⁴ ≲ Re ≲ 1 × 10⁵. An "effective" slip length quantifying the overall drag-reducing ability for each surface was extracted from the resulting Prandtl-von Kármán friction plots. Reductions in the frictional drag of up to 26% were observed, with one of the hierarchically textured surfaces exceeding a wall shear stress of 26 Pa (corresponding to a Reynolds number Re ≈ 7 × 10⁴) before the onset of flow-induced plastron collapse. The surface morphology of each texture was characterized using noncontact optical profilometry, and the influence of various statistical measures of roughness on the effective slip length was explored. The lateral autocorrelation length was identified as the key textural parameter determining the drag-reducing ability for randomly rough SH textures, playing the role analogous to the spatial periodicity of regularly patterned SH surfaces. A large autocorrelation length, a small surface roughness, and the presence of hierarchical roughness features were observed to be the three important design requirements for scalable SH textures for optimal DR in turbulent flows. © 2019 Author(s).
dc.description.departmentErik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
dc.description.sponsorshipOffice of Naval Research (ONR) under the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI) program through contract number 3002453814.
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRajappan, A., K. Golovin, B. Tobelmann, V. Pillutla, et al. 2019. "Influence of textural statistics on drag reduction by scalable, randomly rough superhydrophobic surfaces in turbulent flow." Physics of Fluids 31(4): art. 042107, doi: 10.1063/1.5090514
dc.identifier.issn10706631
dc.identifier.issue4
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5090514
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10735.1/7301
dc.identifier.volume31
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAmerican Institute of Physics Inc.
dc.rights©2019 The Authors
dc.source.journalPhysics of Fluids
dc.subjectAutocorrelation (Statistics)
dc.subjectBoundary layer (Meteorology)
dc.subjectFriction
dc.subjectHydrophobic surfaces
dc.subjectMorphology
dc.subjectReynolds number
dc.subjectShear flow
dc.subjectTurbulence
dc.subjectSurface roughness
dc.titleInfluence of Textural Statistics on Drag Reduction by Scalable, Randomly Rough Superhydrophobic Surfaces in Turbulent Flow
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