Because of its advantages in flow control such as with a short response time

wide frequency range

small scale and low energy consumption

the plasma flow control actuator is one of the most active technologies in flow control. Plasma actuator is widely used for air vehicle’s lift augmentation and drag reduction

performance enhancements and moment control. The basic characterizes of surface dielectric barrier discharge and plasma synthetic jet have been researched. The dominant disturbance of AC-DBD is jet

NS-DBD actuator disturbs the flow in various types such as temperature disturbance

density variation and momentum injection

and the PSJ could induce shock wave and the jet. The AC-DBD actuator could delay transition on a flat at low speed velocity condition;the NS-DBD actuator could control the flow separation on an airfoil up to 25 m/s

at the same time

the NS-DBD actuator has realized the control of shock wave upon a cylinder at Ma=4.6.