A model-scale experimental study is conducted with a plug nozzle exploring the performance of various plug geometries for supersonic aircraft concepts. All data are acquired with a given outer nozzle that is convergent and has an exit diameter of 2 inches. The shape of the centrally placed plug is varied from conic with various half-angles (lengths), to method of characteristics (MoC) designs, as well as truncated and porous geometries. Noise and schlieren flow visualization data, presented in an earlier paper, are briefly reviewed first. The focus in this paper is on the thrust performance. A newly constructed thrust stand is used to acquire data covering a nozzle pressure ratio (NPR) range from transonic (‘landing and takeoff’, LTO) to supersonic (‘cruise’) conditions. Back-to-back measurements allowed assessment of relative performance. A plug with its ‘crown’ located somewhat inside the nozzle, rather than near the exit, is found to perform better. A longer 10° plug performs better than a shorter 22° plug. A porous plug, that significantly suppresses broadband shock associated noise, is found to incur a modest thrust loss that might be an acceptable tradeoff near LTO conditions. A companion numerical simulation for some of the plug geometries yields data trends bearing reasonable agreement with the experimental results.
Flow, Noise and Thrust of Supersonic Plug Nozzles
2024
18 pages
Report
No indication
English
Acoustics , Aerodynamics , Jet noise , Jets , Performance , Supersonic flow , Thrust
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