Title: Flow coefficient behavior for boundary layer bleed holes and slots
Abstract:An experimental investigation into the flow coefficient behavior for nine boundary layer bleed orifice ObJective As part of an effort to provide technology tools to allow for more efficient design of ...An experimental investigation into the flow coefficient behavior for nine boundary layer bleed orifice ObJective As part of an effort to provide technology tools to allow for more efficient design of bleed systems in supersonic inlets, an experimental investigation was initiated to explore the fundamental dynamics of bleed mass flow removal as it applies to boundary layer control.The objective of this effort can be divided into two parts: 1) provide data that can be used to develop and test global modeling schemes for bleed regions, and 2) provide parametric data describing bleed orifice efficiencies for a range of supersonic conditions.Part one focuses on contributing to a long term goal of effectively predicimg the behavior of bleed regions in inlet systems via computational fluid dynamics.Global modeling schemes for bleed regions are a necessity since including each individual bleed orifice in the computational domain can be cost prohibitive.Part two focuses on developing a parametric database for near term use by inlet aerodynamic designers.As presented here, the data serves part two of the objective.Read More