This work focuses on streamline tracing techniques for designing hypersonic inlets, and two deficiencies were discovered.Firstly, constriction ratios of stream-traced inlets are unpredictable and uncontrollable, which...This work focuses on streamline tracing techniques for designing hypersonic inlets, and two deficiencies were discovered.Firstly, constriction ratios of stream-traced inlets are unpredictable and uncontrollable, which may affect the integration with airframes and combustors. Secondly, stream-traced inlets cannot exactly inherit properties from a basic flowfield through which they are traced. Then flow mechanisms underneath these phenomena were clarified. It was made clearly that properties of flow tubes captured by an inlet are what essentially determines constriction ratios as well as performances of inlets. Based on flow mechanisms, the method of calculating along streamlines(MCS) was proposed, which makes it possible to evaluate inlet performances directly. At last, optimization design methodologies were introduced to make inlet constriction ratios controllable,and simultaneously improve inlet performances as much as possible.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11572347,11872071)the China Scholarship Council(CSC)
文摘This work focuses on streamline tracing techniques for designing hypersonic inlets, and two deficiencies were discovered.Firstly, constriction ratios of stream-traced inlets are unpredictable and uncontrollable, which may affect the integration with airframes and combustors. Secondly, stream-traced inlets cannot exactly inherit properties from a basic flowfield through which they are traced. Then flow mechanisms underneath these phenomena were clarified. It was made clearly that properties of flow tubes captured by an inlet are what essentially determines constriction ratios as well as performances of inlets. Based on flow mechanisms, the method of calculating along streamlines(MCS) was proposed, which makes it possible to evaluate inlet performances directly. At last, optimization design methodologies were introduced to make inlet constriction ratios controllable,and simultaneously improve inlet performances as much as possible.
