A new design method for inward-turning, streamline-traced inlets is presented. Resulting designs are intended for moderate supersonic, low-drag, low-boom applications such as that required for NASA's proposed low-boom flight demonstration aircraft. A critical feature of these designs is the internal cowl lip angle that allows for little or no flow turning on the outer nacelle. Present methods using conical-flow Busemann parent flowfields have simply truncated, or otherwise modified the stream-traced contours to include this internal cowl angle. Such modifications disrupt the parent flowfield, reducing inlet performance and flow uniformity. The method presented herein merges a conical flowfield that includes a leading shock with a truncated Busemann flowfield in a manner that minimizes unwanted interactions. A leading internal cowl angle is now inherent in the parent flowfield, and inlet contours traced from this flowfield retain its high performance and good flow uniformity. CFD analysis of a candidate inlet design is presented that verifies the design technique, and reveals a starting issue with the basic geometry. A minor modification to the cowl lip region is shown to eliminate this phenomenon, thereby allowing starting and smooth transition to sub-critical operation as back-pressure is increased. An inlet critical-point total pressure recovery of 96 is achieved based on CFD results for a Mach 1.7 freestream design. Correction for boundary-layer displacement thickness, and sizing for a given engine airflow requirement are also discussed.


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    Title :

    Inward-Turning Streamline-Traced Inlet Design Method for Low-Boom, Low-Drag Applications


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Joint Propulsion Conference ; 2015 ; Orlando, FL, United States


    Publication date :

    2015-06-22


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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