
SIZING THE ENGINE: INSTALLED PERFORMANCE 193
"additive drag"
Dadd = (P - PO) dA
Applying stream thrust analysis to the stream tube control volume between station 0
and station 1, we find that
(a, )
Dada
= P1AI(1
+ yM 2) - PoAo ~ + gMg
(6.5)
A good inlet would, of course, recover most of this force through suction on
the external surface, or "lip," of the inlet, but the accompanying adverse pressure
gradients make boundary-layer separation a constant danger, in which case the
additive drag will not be regained. An unfortunate fact is that larger additive drags
are harder to regain because they are associated with more severe adverse pressure
gradients along the cowl. Please note that extemal friction is not included in this
analysis because external viscous forces are included in airplane drag as far as
"accounting" goes.
Therefore, a reasonable "worst case" or upper limit, for subsonic inlet drag
would be to assume massive separation and no recovery of additive drag. For this
situation, Eqs. (6.2a) and (6.5), conservation of mass, and the usual perfect gas
relationships can be combined to show that
M0~(1 +
yM 2) - (A]/Ao + yM 2)
Dadd M1
~ginlet - /no( F /rho) -- { F g¢/ (rhoao)}(g Mo)
(6.6a)
which can easily be evaluated assuming adiabatic, isentropic flow for any set of
values of M0, M1, a0, and
F/rho.
The static inlet drag may be estimated from the
reduced form of Eq. (6.6a), as follows:
(1 + yM2)/~/1 +(y- 1)M12/2- [1 +(y- 1)M2/2] ~+-~'
(~inlet/static
{ F gc/(rhoao)}(y Ml)
(6.6b)
Figure 6.2a shows the results of calculations for a variety of M0 and M1 combi-
nations and
Fgc/(rhoao)
= 4. Figure 6.2b shows the static inlet drag for several
Fg¢/(~noao)
values ranging from a high of 4 (afterbuming fighter engines) to a
low of 0.5 (high bypass transport engines). The information contained there leads
to the following conclusions:
1)
~ginle t
is not large if M0 is near M1. This is the natural result of D~aa being
exactly zero when M0 = M1 and the entering stream tube experiences neither a
change in flow area nor streamwise pressure forces on the surface. In this region,
lip separation can
still
occur, especially during vigorous maneuvers, and the drag
estimate of Eq. (6.6) may be low.
2) For the usual range of subsonic flight (0.2 < M0 < 0.9), it is desirable to keep
M1 in the vicinity of 0.4-0.6.
3) Unacceptably high values of
cbi, let
occur at M0 = 0, the beginning of every
flight, reaching at least 0.05-0.10, but as much as 0.40-0.50. This explains the