A computational study of the airflow at the intake region of scramjet engines

• Autor(a) principal: Augusto Fontan Moura
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do ITA
• Texto Completo: http://www.bd.bibl.ita.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=2973
• topic: Veículos hipersônicos; Voo hipersônico; Dinâmica dos fluidos computacional; Mecânica dos fluidos; Escoamento hipersônico; Características aerodinâmicas; Física

This work is part of the research and development, at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IEAv), of the first Brazilian hypersonic vehicle prototype, the 14-X airplane. As this vehicle will be propelled by scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) engines, this work presents detailed two-dimensional CFD analyses of the airflow in the intake system of such engines based on the 14-XB scramjet geometry and the expected flight conditions. The main objective is to study the airflow in the intake of the 14-XB at nominal flight condition and also for some off-design flight conditions and geometry using numerical methods and models available in the Fluent code. Off-design values of the vehicle velocity, angle of attack and altitude as well as of the angle of the inlet compression ramp and the number of inlet compression ramps were chosen to show how these changes impact the overall intake airflow. In this study are presented results for the airflow in the entire intake system and of specific flow variables at the engine combustor entrance, as well as calculation results of some intake performance parameters. Both, wall temperature and free stream flow turbulence effects on the intake airflow have also been analyzed. Investigation of viscous flow modeling and of the effects of temperature-dependent air properties has also been performed. Inviscid flow calculations have been performed to serve as a comparison basis for the viscous flow effects and as preliminary information of the airflow. A model validation analysis of the k-kl-? and Transition SST transition models has shown that both models can calculate BL and shock wave interactions (SWBLI) quite well, although, the k-kl-? is better to calculate the separation region whereas the Transition SST is superior to predict the reattachment point. Wall temperature has shown to affect quite significantly SWBLI while viscous flow modeling has shown to have an important impact on the intake airflow with some degradation of the intake system performance.