A mixed compression inlet designed for supersonic cruise has very demanding requirements for high total pressure recovery and low bleed and cowl drag. However, since the optimum inlet for supersonic cruise performance may have other undesirable characteristics, it is necessary to establish trade-offs between inlet performance and other inlet characteristics. The paper will review some of these trade-offs between the amount of internal compression, aerodynamic performance and angle-of-attack tolerance. Also some techniques in use at the Lewis Research Center for analysis of boundary layer control and subsonic diffuser flow will be discussed.


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    Title :

    Some design considerations for supersonic cruise mixed compression inlets


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Propulsion Conference ; 1973 ; Las Vegas, NV, US


    Publication date :

    1973-11-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :




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