A swept gradient air boundary layer diverter for an aircraft. The aircraft includes a fuselage and an air inlet for an engine of the aircraft, where the air inlet includes a cowl at a leading edge of the inlet. The diverter includes a V-shaped ramp portion formed in the fuselage in an area proximate to and in front of the cowl where the ramp portion extends downward away from an outer surface of the fuselage towards an inside of the aircraft. The diverter also includes a V-shaped trough portion formed into the fuselage and being positioned adjacent to and integral with the ramp portion between the ramp portion and the air inlet. Air flowing over the fuselage towards the cowl is expanded and compressed by the ramp portion and the trough portion so as to create pressure gradients that generate vortices to redirect boundary layer airflow around the air inlet.


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    Title :

    Swept gradient boundary layer diverter


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2017-09-12


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge / B64D Ausrüstung für Flugzeuge , EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT



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