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Piezoelectric Control of the Boundary Layer

Authors: Kenneth Ramsey

Aircraft design is reaching a limit on the greatest airspeed obtainable in the atmosphere. A solution might be to control the boundary layer. During the Second World War, an effort was made to manipulate the layer of air that exists at the surface of aircraft. The system used very small holes along the leading edges of the wings. A compressor forced air through the holes and exhausted the compressed air. This did improve the performance of the planes, but the holes required a great effort to keep clear. Here an effort to control the boundary layer is proposed using the piezoelectric effect. A research effort is described.

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