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Mitigating Engine Unstart In Scramjets With Porous Bleeders, Ryan Lindley
Mitigating Engine Unstart In Scramjets With Porous Bleeders, Ryan Lindley
Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses
The effectiveness of porous bleeders in mitigating unstart phenomena and enhancing isolator effectiveness in a hypersonic scramjet was investigated. Through computational fluid dynamics simulations, the impact of porous bleeder design parameters such as pressure jump coefficient and bleeder size on isolator effectiveness and unstart prevention was evaluated. Results indicated that porous bleeders delayed flow separation and reduced adverse pressure gradients, thereby enhancing isolator performance. Additionally, porous bleeders demonstrated promising capabilities in preventing full unstart events and mitigating oscillatory unstart phenomena.