Closed-loop flow control of an ultra-compact serpentine inlet based on nondimensional model

Ultra-compact serpentine inlet faces serve inlet-engine compatibility issues due to flow distortion.To ensure inlet-engine compatibility over a wide range of Mach number,novel active flow control techniques with the ability of being opened or adjusted as needed draw many attentions in recent years.In this paper,a feedback control system was developed based on the method of microjet blowing.The proposed system includes a pressure adjusting valve to adjust the control effort,a dynamic pressure sensor to sense the inlet distortion intensity,a signal processing instrument to calculate the Root-Mean-Squared(RMS)pressure,and a controller to implement feedback control.To achieve high quality closed-loop controls at dynamic conditions,a novel nondimensional feedback method was developed.The advantage of this nondimensional method was validated at both off-design and arbitrarily changing Mach number conditions.With a sectional PI control law,the RMS control error reduced more than 56%at arbitrary changing conditions.Works in this paper also showed that the dynamics of this nondimensional system can be simplified as a stable second-order overdamped system.