Title: Tactical Missile Exhaust Plume at Angle of Attack
Abstract:*† ‡ § The tactical missile exhaust plume from a three -dimensional missile operating at angle of attack has been developed. Tactical missile exhausts plumes have been run for a number of years but no...*† ‡ § The tactical missile exhaust plume from a three -dimensional missile operating at angle of attack has been developed. Tactical missile exhausts plumes have been run for a number of years but not complete configurations at angle of attack that include base regions. Prev iously, the technology has not been available to run an end -to -end simulation of the total configuration at angle of attack. The importance of accomplishing this effort was to determine how the thermal flow structure of a missile plume at an angle of atta ck is related to a missile plume at zero angle of attack. In order to investigate this scenario, the missile plume was calculated for a missile at an altitude that was near the limit of the afterburning region in altitude (40 km). The missile was then run at 15 degrees angle of attack in order to determine if operation at angle of attack in that region would trigger afterburning and result in increased burning compared to the case at zero angle of attack. The results show that the angle of attack case leads to a more rapid interaction of free stream oxidizer and burns earlier than the zero angle of attack case.Read More
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-06-21
Language: en
Type: article
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