Discretized Miller approach to assess effects on boundary layer ingestion induced distortion

The performance of propulsion configurations with boundary layer ingestion (BLI) is affected to a large extent by the level of distortion in the inlet flow field. Through flow methods and parallel compressor have been used in the past to calculate the effects of this aerodynamic inte-gration issue on the fan performance;however high-fidelity through flow methods are computation-ally expensive, which limits their use at preliminary design stage. On the other hand, parallel compressor has been developed to assess only circumferential distortion. This paper introduces a discretized semi-empirical performance method, which uses empirical correlations for blade and performance calculations. This tool discretizes the inlet region in radial and circumferential direc-tions enabling the assessment of deterioration in fan performance caused by the combined effect of both distortion patterns. This paper initially studies the accuracy and suitability of the semi-empirical discretized method by comparing its predictions with CFD and experimental data for a baseline case working under distorted and undistorted conditions. Then a test case is examined, which corresponds to the propulsor fan of a distributed propulsion system with BLI. The results obtained from the validation study show a good agreement with the experimental and CFD results under design point conditions.     

BLI效应下整流罩设计对翼型气动特性的影响

边界层吸入(BLI)效应对飞行器气动特性的影响比较显著,而整流罩的设计会进一步影响BLI效应下的翼型气动特性。为了揭示BLI效应下整流罩的主要设计参数对翼型气动特性的影响及其原因,本文采用计算流体力学(CFD)和Morris敏感度分析相结合的方法对该问题进行了详细研究,得到了整流罩主要设计参数对翼型气动特性的敏感度排序和耦合影响程度排序;对敏感度较高和耦合影响较大的参数进行了流动分析。结果表明:在巡航和起飞2种状态下,对气动系数影响相对较大的设计参数是整流罩最大厚度和进气边界弦向位置,整流罩最大厚度对翼型气动特性影响的主要原因是整流罩背风面会发生局部分离,且其还会改变阻力-流量系数曲线的趋势;整流罩最大厚度和进气边界弦向位置对翼型气动特性的耦合影响作用较强。