An investigation has been conducted in the static test facility of the Langley 16-Foot Transonic Tunnel to determine the effects of rounding and rotating the port corner of a nonaxisymmetric thrust reversing port. High pressure air was used to simulate jet exhaust at nozzle pressure ratios up to 6.0. The investigation indicates that using a rounded corner in the reverser port passage increases the discharge coefficient significantly compared to that of a sharp cornered thrust reversing port. Incorporating a rotating cylinder into the rounded corner reverser port passage provides no additional increase at cylinder revolutions per minute up to 10,000. (Revolutions per minute of 390,000 were necessary to achieve a surface velocity equal to the duct velocity.) Highest levels of discharge coefficient are obtained by providing a large, round, cylindrical surface in the port upstream wall. Locating the reverser port in a constant area duct results in higher discharge coefficients than locating the port in a convergent duct.


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    Title :

    An investigation at static conditions of nonaxisymmetric nozzle thrust reverser port geometry including effects of rounding and rotating the port corner


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    Publication date :

    1985-11-01


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


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