The aerodynamic environment encountered by powered-lift aircraft operating in ground effect is unique among flight vehicles. It is characterized by low forward speed with embedded regions of high subsonic or supersonic jet flows. During ground effect operations, complex recirculating flows generated by the jets produce large changes in the aerodynamic loads on the flight vehicle. Analytic prediction and small-scale experimental methods have produced mixed results in this flight regime, with the result that costly full-scale powered tests are required to evaluate the performance of candidate designs. The ability to accurately predict vehicle performance without resorting to full-scale tests will be critical to future powered-lift aircraft projects. This paper summarizes efforts to predict the flow field about a powered-lift aircraft, the YAV-8B Harrier, in low level jet-borne flight by solution of the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations. Results are compared to infrared images of the NASA YAV-8B Harrier V/STOL Systems Research Aircraft (VSRA) under similar flight conditions.


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    Title :

    Numerical simulation of a complete STOVL aifcraft in ground effect


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    Publication date :

    1993-12-01


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    Conference paper


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    English


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