A Comparison of Active and Passive Methods for Control of Hypersonic Boundary Layers on Airbreathing Configurations
- Author:
- Berry, Scott A.
- Published:
- [2003].
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic document
- Additional Creators:
- Nowak, Robert J.
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- Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available.
- Summary:
- Active and passive methods for control of hypersonic boundary layers have been experimentally examined in NASA Langley Research Center wind tunnels on a Hyper-X model. Several configurations for forcing transition using passive discrete roughness elements and active mass addition, or blowing, methods were compared in two hypersonic facilities, the 20-Inch Mach 6 Air and the 31-Inch Mach 10 Air tunnels. Heat transfer distributions, obtained via phosphor thermography, shock system details, and surface streamline patterns were measured on a 0.333-scale model of the Hyper-X forebody. The comparisons between the active and passive methods for boundary layer control were conducted at test conditions that nearly match the nominal Mach 7 flight trajectory of an angle-of-attack of 2-deg and length Reynolds number of 5.6 million. For the passive roughness examination, the primary parametric variation was a range of trip heights within the calculated boundary layer thickness for several trip concepts. The prior passive roughness study resulted in a swept ramp configuration being selected for the Mach 7 flight vehicle that was scaled to be roughly 0.6 of the calculated boundary layer thickness. For the active jet blowing study, the blowing manifold pressure was systematically varied for each configuration, while monitoring the mass flow, to determine the jet penetration height with schlieren and transition movement with the phosphor system for comparison to the passive results. All the blowing concepts tested were adequate for providing transition onset near the trip location with manifold stagnation pressures on the order of 40 times the model static pressure or higher.
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- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
- Note:
- Document ID: 20040040199.
JANNAF 27th Airbreathing Propulsion Subcommittee Meeting; 1-5 Dec. 2003; Colorado Springs, CO; United States. - Terms of Use and Reproduction:
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