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Physics of forebody flow control
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Font, Gabriel I. |
| Copyright Year | 1993 |
| Description | Performance in the high angle of attack regime is required by many different types of aircraft. Military aircraft, such as fighters, utilize flight in this regime to improve maneuverability. Civilian aircraft, such as supersonic or hypersonic transports, will also need to operate in this regime during take off and landing, due to their small highly swept wings. Flight at high angles of attack is problematic due to the vortices being created on the nose of the aircraft. The vortices tend to become asymmetric and produce side forces. At the same time, the rudders are less effective because they are becoming immersed in the flow separating from the wings and fuselage. Consequently, the side force produced by the vortices on the nose tend to destabilize the aircraft. This situation may be corrected through the use of a forebody flow control system such as tangential slot blowing. In this concept, a jet is blown from the nose in an effort to alter the flow field around the nose and diminish the destabilizing side force. Alternately, the jet may be used to create a side force which could be used to augment the rudders. This would allow the size of the rudders to be decreased which would, in turn, diminish the cruise drag. Therefore, the use of a tangential slot blowing system has the potential for improving both the maneuver performance and the cruise performance of an aircraft. The present study was conducted to explore the physics of forebody flow control. The study consisted of two major thrusts: (1) exploration of forebody flow control with tangential slot blowing; (2) investigation of flow and field response to a general perturbation. |
| File Size | 2045036 |
| Page Count | 84 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19940006723 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t8dg1nz0b |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1993-08-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aerodynamics Aerodynamic Drag Aircraft Stability Control Systems Design Blowing Aerodynamic Stability Aircraft Control Slots Maneuverability Swept Wings Rudders Vortices Flow Distribution Aircraft Maneuvers Control Stability Fuselages Angle of Attack Supersonic Transports Fighter Aircraft Destabilization Forebodies Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
