Tradeoffs in Biconic Intake Aerodynamic Design Optimization with Sub-optimal Oswatitsch Solutions

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Autores principales: Sandhu, J. P. S., Bhardwaj, M., Ananthkrishnan, N., Sharma, A., Park, J. W., Park, I. S.
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author Sandhu, J. P. S.
Bhardwaj, M.
Ananthkrishnan, N.
Sharma, A.
Park, J. W.
Park, I. S.
author_facet Sandhu, J. P. S.
Bhardwaj, M.
Ananthkrishnan, N.
Sharma, A.
Park, J. W.
Park, I. S.
contents The notion of sub-optimal Oswatitsch solutions is introduced in order to systematically conduct a tradeoff between total pressure recovery (TPR) and intake drag coefficient (CDi) for supersonic intakes. It is shown that the Oswatitsch-optimal TPR for a biconic intake may be enhanced by adding a conical flare which modifies the terminal normal shock into a novel Lambda shock structure. The optimization problem is formulated along the lines of Axiomatic Design Theory with the conical angle pair and the cowl fineness ratio as the two design parameters. Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations are performed to iteratively arrive at the optimal solutions, with and without an intake length constraint, for a fixed value of the intake mass flow rate. The results are used to generate the Pareto front in the space of the objective functions, which yields the set of solutions between which TPR and Cdi may be traded off for one another. Additionally, an off-Oswatitsch solution, where only the second cone angle is altered from its optimal Oswatitsch value, is obtained and is compared with the sub-optimal Oswatitsch solutions that form the Pareto front.
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spellingShingle Tradeoffs in Biconic Intake Aerodynamic Design Optimization with Sub-optimal Oswatitsch Solutions
Sandhu, J. P. S.
Bhardwaj, M.
Ananthkrishnan, N.
Sharma, A.
Park, J. W.
Park, I. S.
Fluid Dynamics
Computational Physics
The notion of sub-optimal Oswatitsch solutions is introduced in order to systematically conduct a tradeoff between total pressure recovery (TPR) and intake drag coefficient (CDi) for supersonic intakes. It is shown that the Oswatitsch-optimal TPR for a biconic intake may be enhanced by adding a conical flare which modifies the terminal normal shock into a novel Lambda shock structure. The optimization problem is formulated along the lines of Axiomatic Design Theory with the conical angle pair and the cowl fineness ratio as the two design parameters. Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations are performed to iteratively arrive at the optimal solutions, with and without an intake length constraint, for a fixed value of the intake mass flow rate. The results are used to generate the Pareto front in the space of the objective functions, which yields the set of solutions between which TPR and Cdi may be traded off for one another. Additionally, an off-Oswatitsch solution, where only the second cone angle is altered from its optimal Oswatitsch value, is obtained and is compared with the sub-optimal Oswatitsch solutions that form the Pareto front.
title Tradeoffs in Biconic Intake Aerodynamic Design Optimization with Sub-optimal Oswatitsch Solutions
topic Fluid Dynamics
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02912