The Tactical Missile Division has been using ramjets on its missiles for more than thirty years. The adaptation of this type of propulsion to very high speed aircraft and airbreathing launchers is investigated. We must study vehicles designed for higher and higher speeds, and we need to optimize more rapidly, and at a lower cost, our airbreathing missile configurations. We completed our supersonic air intake design methodology by using CFD for our work in external and internal aerodynamics. These CFD tools involving Euler and Navier-Stokes codes and mesh generators are complementary to wind tunnel tests.
Etudes Aerodynamiques de Prises d'Air Supersoniques (Aerodynamic Studies of Supersonic Air Intakes)
1992
16 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Missile Trajectories & Reentry Dynamics , Jet & Gas Turbine Engines , Aerodynamics , Air breathing engines , Air intakes , Inlet airframe configurations , Missile configurations , Ramjet engines , Supersonic inlets , Cost reduction , Missiles , Aerodynamic characteristics , Aerodynamic configurations , Computational grids , Euler equations of motion , Navier-stokes equation , Wind tunnel tests , Foreign technology