Aerothermodynamics of a Jet Cell Facility

Abstract

This thesis consists of a three-dimensional numerical analysis of the Jet Aircraft Hush House located at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida. Utilizing the PHOENICS Code allows for the determination of the aerothermal characteristics including velocity, pressure, enthalpy, turbulent kinetic energy and the dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy in the facility during testing of the U.S. Navy's F-4 (Phantom II) J-79-GE-8 gas turbine engine with afterburner. How and by what method PHOENICS arrives at this solution is discussed. Of greatest importance is the resulting behavior of the aerothermal system. Problems encountered using the PHONEICS code, resulting numerical solutions to the particular facility, comparison to actual test data and recommendations for further applications of the PHOENICS Code are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA202142

Entities

People

  • Eric A. Nicolaus

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Flow
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircrafts
  • Civil Engineering
  • Coast Guard
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Engineering
  • Fluid Flow
  • Gas Turbines
  • Heat Transfer
  • Jet Engines
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Naval Air Stations
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Test Facilities
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbines

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.