A Simplified Design Approach for High-Speed Wind Tunnels. Part-I.I: Optimized Design of Settling Chamber and Inlet Nozzle

2020 11th International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (ICMAE 2020): Proceedings 2020
Ali Arshad, Supun Samarasinghe, Vadims Kovalcuks

This study was carried out after the initial divergent nozzle contours of the high-speed wind tunnel inlet nozzle were designed in [1]. The goal of the study is to design a suitable and simplified inlet section (settling chamber, C-D nozzle, and test section) of the supersonic wind tunnel prototype. At first, an optimized design for the settling chamber was created after which the settling chamber could be used for any planned Mach configuration (1.5≤M≤3). In the next step, three different designs for the inlet section of the wind tunnel were created and a suitable design for the future manufacturing of the inlet section was selected with the help of the numerical simulations.

Keywords
Wind tunnel, Supersonic flow, Inlet nozzle, Settling chamber, Design optimization
DOI
10.1109/ICMAE50897.2020.9178865
Hyperlink
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9178865

Arshad, A., Samarasinghe, S., Kovalcuks, V. A Simplified Design Approach for High-Speed Wind Tunnels. Part-I.I: Optimized Design of Settling Chamber and Inlet Nozzle. In: 2020 11th International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (ICMAE 2020): Proceedings, Greece, Athens, 14-17 July, 2020. Piscataway: IEEE, 2020, pp.150-154. ISBN 978-1-7281-8323-7. e-ISBN 978-1-7281-8322-0. Available from: doi:10.1109/ICMAE50897.2020.9178865

Publication language
English (en)