Aeronautics and astronautics – Miscellaneous
Patent
1984-06-21
1987-11-03
Barefoot, Galen
Aeronautics and astronautics
Miscellaneous
244198, 244207, 244130, 350319, 350584, B64D 4700
Patent
active
047039043
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for providing an aero-optical interface by stabilizing a shear layer in a fluid flowing over an aperture. The apparatus extracts fluid from a remote part of the flowing fluid and conveys it to the underside of the shear layer where it feeds the shear layer and prevents the shear layer from deflecting into the cavity underlying the aperture. A preferred embodiment also includes a ramp downstream of the aperture. Stability of the shear layer is optimized by placing the aperture where the pressure distribution absent the aperture would have been constant. The resulting thin, self-similar shear layer is an optimized viscid flowfield interface for uniform transmission of optical radiation.
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Barefoot Galen
The Boeing Company
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