Abstract
Air intakes play a crucial role in hypersonic air-breathing propulsion by compressing incoming airflow to high pressure and temperature for combustion. Axisymmetric Busemann intakes can achieve highly efficient compression for scramjet engines in inviscid flow. In practice, however, viscous effects exert significant influence on the flowfield and performance of scramjet intakes, necessitating effective methods for viscous correction and intake shortening. The present study develops a robust correction methodology by coupling viscous flow simulations with a wall correction method based on local displacement thickness of the boundary layer, whose edge is detected based on the total enthalpy profile. This iterative correction process is applied to hypersonic stunted Busemann intakes and supersonic M-flow ring geometries. Flow features in the initial inviscid fields are successfully reproduced in the presence of viscosity for both applications, except for highly stunted Busemann intakes, where the mode transition to Mach reflection occurs at different shortening lengths.
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The word ‘stunted’ is used to designate lengthwise contracted intakes, in contrast to ‘truncated’ intakes that have been shortened by deleting some leading edge portion.
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This study has been conducted in line with the General Collaborative Research Projects J14054 and J16090 and Multiple Collaborative Research Project J15R005 coordinated and funded by the Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University. The authors are grateful for their support, which inspired and enabled the present research. Hideaki Ogawa is thankful to the Australian Research Council for their financial support in the ARC DECRA (Discovery Early Career Research Awards) fellowship (DE120102277). Ben Shoesmith gratefully acknowledges the MEDA scholarship funded by the Faculty of Engineering, McGill University, and the FRQNT and NSERC funding agencies.
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Ogawa, H., Shoesmith, B., Mölder, S., Timofeev, E. (2018). Viscous Correction and Shock Reflection in Stunted Busemann Intakes. In: Kontis, K. (eds) Shock Wave Interactions. RaiNew 2017. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73180-3_14
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