STUDIO DEL CAMPO DI MOTO NELLO STRATO LIMITE PER UN AEREO DI TIPO BWB

The continuous increase of the amount of the everyday flights has as a consequence a vertiginous growth of the polluting emissions in the world. This urgent phenomenon together with the need of the aviation companies of reducing the fuel expenses is leading to the design of completely new concept airplanes and engine systems. The matter of this work involves the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to study the flow evolution around one of these new concept airplane, the NASA N3-X concept. The contribution to knowledge is of investigating the flow field around the airfoil of this new generation airplane for 8 flight points to validate the preliminary intake design made by Cranfield University with an unidimensional gas dynamic model. This study is preparatory to allow Cranfield University to know the thermodynamics in the proximity of the engines inlet to carry out an optimization study of the engine’s intake aerodynamic. This project is made in collaboration with the NASA and Cranfield University.