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Fluid Mechanics, Drag Reduction and Advanced Configuration Aeronautics

Fluid Mechanics, Drag Reduction and Advanced Configuration Aeronautics

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ISBN10: 1724111574
ISBN13: 9781724111579
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 27 2018
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.07 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
This paper discusses Advanced Aircraft configurational approaches across the speed range, which are either enabled, or greatly enhanced, by clever Flow Control. Configurations considered include Channel Wings with circulation control for VTOL (but non-hovering) operation with high cruise speed, strut-braced CTOL transports with wingtip engines and extensive ('natural') laminar flow control, a midwing double fuselage CTOL approach utilizing several synergistic methods for drag-due-to-lift reduction, a supersonic strut-braced configuration with order of twice the L/D of current approaches and a very advanced, highly engine flow-path-integrated hypersonic cruise machine. This paper indicates both the promise of synergistic flow control approaches as enablers for 'Revolutions' in aircraft performance and fluid mechanic 'areas of ignorance' which impede their realization and provide 'target-rich' opportunities for Fluids Research. Bushnell, Dennis M. Langley Research Center NASA/TM-2000-210646, NAS 1.15:210646, L-18055

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