Investigation of Attack Angle Character for Hypersonic Inlet

Abstract

The comparison analysis of performance with design point has been done in view of two different inlets, which were built by uniform shock intensity and shock angle method respectively. Base on this, the attack angle performance was emphatic developed on off-design point. The numerical calculation and analysis was conducted in eight different attack angle for air inlet conditions on two kinds of inlet respectively. The result indicated that, the inlet with uniform shock intensity method has 5% much more flow coefficient than inlet with uniform shock angle, in the condition of design point. In the condition of off-design point, the influence of the inlet performance is relatively small to the later kind of inlet with the increase of positive attack angel.