Abstract— Aerodynamic drag is known to be one of the factorscontributing more to increased aircraft fuelconsumption. Theprimary source of skin friction drag during flight is theboundary layer separation. This is the layer ofair movingsmoothly in the immediate vicinity of the aircraft. In this paperwe discuss a cyber-physical system approachable ofperforming an efficient suppression of the turbulent flow byusing a dense sensing deployment to detect the lowpressureregion and a similarly dense deployment of actuators tomanage the turbulent flow. With this concept, onlytheactuators in the vicinity of a separation layer are activated,minimizing power consumption and also the induced drag.
Publised in proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN2012), July 10th, 2012, Pisa, Italy.