Abstract
In order to study the difference and mechanism of the internal flow total pressure loss between the boundary layer ingestion (BLI) inlet and the conventional S-shaped inlet, numerical simulation method was applied and step-by-step comparative analysis of the total pressure loss was carried out. The results showed that, when fan-face Mach number was kept unchanged, the flow loss of BLI inlet was larger than that of the conventional S-shaped inlet under the working conditions of relatively lower and higher Mach number of free-stream (corresponding to below 0.3 or above 0.6), and the maximum difference was 2.4 percent. Under the working condition of medium Mach number of free-stream (corresponding to between 0.3 and 0.6), the flow loss generated by the BLI inlet was slightly smaller than that of the conventional S-shaped inlet, and the maximum difference was 0.3 percent. The combined effect of the fore-wall of the BLI inlet and the low-energy boundary flow changed the flow characteristics in the inlet and developed rapidly in the diffuser of the S-shaped pipeline, leading to the difference in flow loss characteristics.
| Translated title of the contribution | Flow losses characteristics of BLI inlet |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Pages (from-to) | 698-708 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Hangkong Dongli Xuebao/Journal of Aerospace Power |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - Mar 2023 |