The Effect of Discrete Spanwise Regions of Bleed on Pseudo-Two Dimensional Base Flow at Transonic Speeds,

Abstract

A preliminary experimental study of a new type of pseudo-two-dimensional bluff base consisting of a series of rectangular prismatic protrusions spaced along the span with base bleed into the regions between the protrusions is presented. A base geometry was derived which had less drag at subsonic and transonic speeds than the best reported non-bleed arrangement for bleed mass flow coefficients (based on the mass flux swept by the model frontal area) in the range 0.02 to 0.04. A simple two-dimensional bleed arrangement requires a bleed coefficient greater than 0.08 to achieve the same subsonic base drag.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA139499

Entities

People

  • N. Pollock

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airfoils
  • Base Pressure
  • Boundary Layer
  • Department Of Defense
  • Drag Reduction
  • Engineering
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Free Stream
  • Geometry
  • Leading Edges
  • Mach Number
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Production Engineering
  • Reynolds Number
  • Transonic Airfoils
  • Two Dimensional
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster
  • Space - Orbital Debris