Design of a Small Scale Aerospike Nozzle and Associated Testing Infrastructure for Experimental Evaluation of Aerodynamic Thrust Vectoring
@inproceedings{Eilers2010DesignOA, title={Design of a Small Scale Aerospike Nozzle and Associated Testing Infrastructure for Experimental Evaluation of Aerodynamic Thrust Vectoring}, author={Shannon D. Eilers and Matthew D. Wilson and Stephen A. Whitmore}, year={2010} }
A system for cold ow testing of an aerospike nozzle has been developed in an e ort to examine the e ectiveness of aerodynamic thrust vectoring and truncated nozzle base bleed. These tests are designed to produce results that will support the design of a system for hot ow testing of the same technologies. Design of a nozzle suitable for testing with reasonable cold-gas mass ow rates and measureable forces and moments involved an extensive parametric study. Conceptual-level computational uid…
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