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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2011, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (6): 988-996.doi: CNKI:11-1929/V.20110217.1420.000

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Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Hypersonic Inward Turning Inlets with Rectangular to Circular Shape Transition

NAN Xiangjun1, ZHANG Kunyuan1, JIN Zhiguang1, SUN Bo2   

  1. 1. College of Energy & Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China;
    2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
  • Received:2010-09-08 Revised:2010-12-14 Online:2011-06-25 Published:2011-06-24

Abstract: With pressure gradient on the wall of the inlet’s basic flow field increasing at the front part then decreasing at the rear part, using streamline tracing and varying section techologies, a hypersonic inward turning inlet with rectangular to circular shape transition integrated into 4° wedge forebody, is designed and investigated with numerical simulation and experimental method. The flow field structure and performance of the inlet are primarily obtained. The simulation results of design points and take-over speeds indicate that this inlet can operate normally over the Mach number range of 4-6 and has good performance with 4° angle of attack. The inlet model is tested in a hypersonic wind tunnel at Mach number 6 with 4° angle of attack. And the experimental results indicate that the scaled inlet model’s total pressure recovery is 0.45. It can generate a compression ratio of 41.2 and withstand a back pressure ratio of 200 relative to tunnel static pressure.

Key words: hypersonic inlets, basic flowfield, law of pressure rise, numerical analysis, wind tunnel test

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