To address the need for accurate nacelle drag estimation, an assessment has been made of different nacelle configurations used for drag evaluation. These include a sting mounted nacelle, a nacelle in free flow with an idealised, freestream pressure matched, efflux and a nacelle with a full exhaust system and representative nozzle pressure ratio. An aerodynamic analysis using numerical methods has been carried out on four nacelles to assess a near field drag extraction method using computational fluid dynamics. The nacelles were modelled at a range of aerodynamic conditions and three were compared against wind tunnel data. A comparison is made between the drag extraction methods used in the wind tunnel analysis and the chosen computational fluid dynamics approach which utilised the modified near-field method for evaluation of drag coefficients and trends with Mach number and mass flow. The effect of sting mounting is quantified and its influence on the drag measured by the wind tunnel methodology determined. This highlights notable differences in the rate of change of drag with free stream Mach number, and also the flow over the nacelle. A post exit stream tube was also found to create a large additional interference term acting on the nacelle. This term typically accounts for 50% of the modified nacelle drag and its inclusion increased the drag rise Mach number by around ΔM = 0.026 from M = 0 . 849 to M = 0 . 875 for the examples considered.


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    Title :

    Aspects of aero-engine nacelle drag


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    Publication date :

    2019-04-01


    Size :

    16 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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