Title: An investigation of the feasibility of active boundary layer thickening for aircraft drag reduction
Abstract: The feasibility of using a forward mounted windmilling propeller to extract momentum from the flow around an axisymmetric body to reduce total drag has been studied. Numerical calculations indicate that a net drag reduction is possible when the energy extracted is returned to an aft mounted pusher propeller. However, net drag reduction requires very high device efficiencies. Results of an experimental program to study the coupling between a propeller wake and a turbulent boundary layer are also reported. The experiments showed that a complex coupling exists and simple modes for the flow field are not sufficiently accurate to predict total drag.
Publication Year: 1986
Publication Date: 1986-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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