Supersonic air intakes are of foremost importance in the design of a supersonic air-breathing vehicle, whether the propulsion system is a turbojet, a ramjet or a scramjet. They are critical in the performance but also in the mass budget, the general architecture and the radar signature.
The Action Group AD/AG-58 on Supersonic Air Intakes builds upon the research of AG34 that focussed on shock/boundary layer interactions and the modelling of porous walls and bumps. The main objective for AG-58 is to assess RANS methodology as well as Scale Resolving Techniques of relevant flow features on representative test cases and validate CFD codes on these specific topics. One academic (TC1) and two applied test cases have been investigated:
- TC1: Shock train in a rectangular cross-section channel, Mach=1.96
- TC2: Ramjet intake, Mach=3.0
- TC3: Scramjet intake, Mach=7.0
Chair: Christophe Nottin, MBDA-F
Monitoring responsable: Guillaume Fonvielle, MBDA-F
