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Natural laminar flow application to transport aircraft
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Gratzer, Louis B. |
| Copyright Year | 1990 |
| Description | A major goal of NASA during the last 15 years has been the development of laminar flow technology for aircraft drag reduction. Of equal importance is achieving a state of readiness that will allow the successful application of this technology by industry to large, long-range aircraft. Recent progress in achieving extensive laminar flow with limited suction on the Boeing 757 has raised the prospects from practical application of the hybrid laminar flow control (HLFC) concept to subsonic aircraft. Also, better understanding of phenomena affecting laminar flow stability and response to disturbances has encouraged consideration of natural laminar flow (NLF), obtained without suction or active mechanical means, for application to transport aircraft larger than previously thought feasible. These ideas have inspired the current NASA/ASEE project with goals as follows: explore the feasibility of extensive NLF for aircraft at high Reynolds number under realistic flight conditions; determine the potential applications of NLF technology and the conditions under which they may be achieved; and identify existing aircraft that could be adapted to carry out flight experiments to validate NLF technology application. To achieve these objectives, understanding of the physical limits to natural laminar flow and possible ways to extend these limits was sought. The primary factors involved are unit Reynolds number, Mach number, wing sweep, thickness, and lift coefficients as well as surface pressure gradients and curvature. Based on previous and ongoing studies using laminar boundary layer stability theory, the interplay of the above factors and the corresponding transition limits were postulated. |
| File Size | 107210 |
| Page Count | 2 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19910004001 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9479979j |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1990-09-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aircraft Design, Testing And Performance High Reynolds Number Suction Aerodynamic Drag Flight Conditions Transport Aircraft Boeing 757 Aircraft Reynolds Number Aerodynamic Coefficients Boundary Layer Control Lift Pressure Gradients Flow Stability Thickness Laminar Boundary Layer Drag Reduction Laminar Flow Swept Wings Curvature Mach Number Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
