Effects of open area ratio and boundary layer thickness upon the flow around a permeable wall cube set on a flat wall, on which a turbulent boundary layer is developing, have been investigated experimentally. The permeable wall cube consists of six perforated plates whose open area ratio is determined by the number of the plate holes. Eachcube model has different open area ratios β of 0, 0.114, 0.256, 0.349 and 0.456. The height ratio
h/δ. which indicates the ratio of cube height
h to boundary layer thickness δ, is changed in two cases of 2.86 and 0.72. The critical open area ratio when there is a separation bubble behind the present perforated wall cube becomes larger relative to the lattice member cube, and therefore the permeability of fluid in the present perforated wall cube may be smaller than in the lattice member cube. The minimum pressure on the ground wall in the separation bubble behind the cube rises with increasing β and with decreasing
h/δ, and the position which takes the minimum pressure moves downstream away from the cube with increase of both β and
h/δ. The drag coefficient of the present perforated wall cube tends to decrease roughly with increasing β, but shows a significant change beyond about β=0.256 in the case of
h/δ=2.86 and beyond about β=0.349 in the case of
h/δ=0.72.
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