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Computational Investigation Of Slot Blowing For Fuselage Forebody Flow Control, Scott M. Murman, Yehia M. Rizk, Russell M. Cummings, Lewis B. Schiff

Aerospace Engineering

This paper presents a computational investigation of a tangential slot blowing concept for generating lateral control forces on an aircraft fuselage forebody. The effects of varying both the jet width and jet exit velocity for a fixed location slot are analyzed. This work is aimed at aiding researchers designing future experimental and computational models of tangential slot blowing. The primary influence on the resulting side force of the forebody is seen to be the jet mass flow rate. This influence is insensitive to different combination of slot widths and jet velocities over the range of variables considered. Both an actuator …