Effect of air jet with injection pressure on the performance of mixed compression air intake

Abstract

A computational study on the performance of mixed compression supersonic air intake has been carried out with and without air jet at various operating conditions. Commercially available software ANSYS was used and K-ω SST turbulence model was selected to capture the turbulent flow inside the air intake. All the simulations were simulated at a design Mach number of 2.2. Two Air jet of 1 mm diameter each and perpendicular to the local ramp surface have been placed in longitudinal direction at 0.47 times the total length of the air intake. Effect of variation of injection pressure on the flow field of air intake has been studied. Injection pressure has been varied with respect to the free stream pressure. Four different cases of injection pressure have been investigated. Three different positions (1.far away before the air jet, 2. immediately after the air jet and 3. far away behind the air jet) of normal shock were simulated to study the effect of air jet by varying the back pressure of the supersonic air intake. Significant reduction in the flow separation due the normal shock wave was noticed for all the cases of injection pressure, which further helps in improving the performance of the supersonic air intake. Important performance parameters such as flow distortion, mass flow ratio and total pressure recovery were calculated to measure the efficacy of supersonic air intake with air jet at various operating conditions.

Keywords

Supersonic air intake air jet injection pressure performance parameters SWBLI control

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