Electrical Engineering and Automation

December 2013, Volume 2, Issue 4, PP.44-51

Design and Numerical Simulation of Submerged

S-shaped Inlet Duct
Sangcao Ge #, Rong Cui
National Key Laboratory on Aero-Engines, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing 100191, China
#Email: gesangcao2006@163.com

Abstract
Submerged S-shaped inlet applied on Blended Wing Body aircraft would ingest fuselage boundary layer, as the boundary layer
cannot resist adverse pressure gradient in duct and may cause flow separation, thus leading to the total pressure loss and outlet
distortion, which is the core problem of S-shaped inlet. Wall curvature of S-shaped duct can cause local adverse pressure gradient,
while wall pressure gradient is important reasons for the development of the boundary layer and loss. In order to control and
optimize the wall pressure distribution of the S-shaped inlet and investigate the relationship between the pressure distribution and
aerodynamic performance of the S-shaped inlet, the paper developed a two-dimensional geometry model which can build the
association of wall pressure distribution and wall curvature allocation; then three-dimensional model was built. By numerical
simulation, the wall pressure distribution and aerodynamic performance of S-shaped inlet duct were analyzed in this paper at the
condition of uniform intake and boundary layer ingestion. The results showed that the wall pressure distribution trend at different
longitudinal locations remains approximately, and at the condition of uniform intake the wall pressure distribution of threedimensional model is similar to the two-dimensional model, so the feasibility of the design method is proved; and further the
ingested boundary layer causes large scale of flow separation at the inner wall, the total pressure recovery decreases and the outlet
distortion index increases.
Keywords: S-shaped Inlet; Wall Curvature; Wall Pressure Distribution; Boundary Layer Ingestion (BLI); Pressure Recovery;
Distortion

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