A feasibility study is presented of simulating airbreathing propulsion on small scale hypersonic models using laser energy. The laser heat addition scheme allows simultaneous inlet and exhaust flows during wind tunnel testing of models with scramjet models. The proposed propulsion simulation concept has extended the Kantrowitz (1974) idea to propulsive wind tunnel models of hypersonic aircraft. Critical issues in aeropropulsive testing of models based on a ramjet power plant are addressed which include transfer of the correct amount of energy to the flowing gas, efficient absorption of laser energy into the gas, and test performance under tunnel reservoir conditions and at reasonable Reynolds numbers.
Laser-driven hypersonic air-breathing propulsion simulator
1992-07-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
Hypersonic Air-Breathing Propulsion
AIAA | 2011
|Hypersonic Air-Breathing Propulsion
NTIS | 1966
|Hypersonic Air-Breathing Missile Propulsion
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997
|Fuels for Hypersonic Air‐Breathing Propulsion
Wiley | 2022
|