Effect of cylinder electrode arrangement on the ionic wind properties of needle-cylinder electrodes

Needle-cylinder electrodes designed to generate ionic wind have been explored experimentally. The increase of the gap distance between needle and cylinder from 4 mm to 16 mm cause an increase of the ionic wind velocity from 1.1 m/s to 2.46 m/s. The opposite behavior was observed when this distance lengthened from 18 to 28 mm. At the same time, a step voltage was used to increase the ionic wind velocity up to 3.6 m/s. These results indicate that electrode arrangement is very important to maximize the ionic wind velocity.