The overall scope of the NASA Lewis High Performance Aircraft Propulsion Research Program is presented. High performance fighter aircraft of interest include supersonic flights with such capabilities as short take off and vertical landing (STOVL) and/or high maneuverability. The NASA Lewis effort involving STOVL propulsion systems is focused primarily on component-level experimental and analytical research. The high-maneuverability portion of this effort, called the High Alpha Technology Program (HATP), is part of a cooperative program among NASA's Lewis, Langley, Ames, and Dryden facilities. The overall objective of the NASA Inlet Experiments portion of the HATP, which NASA Lewis leads, is to develop and enhance inlet technology that will ensure high performance and stability of the propulsion system during aircraft maneuvers at high angles of attack. To accomplish this objective, both wind-tunnel and flight experiments are used to obtain steady-state and dynamic data, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes are used for analyses. This overview of the High Performance Aircraft Propulsion Research Program includes a sampling of the results obtained thus far and plans for the future.
Overview of High Performance Aircraft Propulsion Research
1992
18 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aircraft , Aerodynamics , Jet & Gas Turbine Engines , Aircraft engines , Computational fluid dynamics , Fighter aircraft , Propulsion system configurations , Propulsion system performance , Supersonic aircraft , Maneuverability , Stovl aircraft , Supersonic flight , Aircraft control , Aircraft maneuvers , Data bases , Engine parts , Flight control , Flight tests , Military technology , Wind tunnel tests
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