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10.4.3 Closure
The present design configuration status is summarized by Figs. 10.E3, 10.E6,
10.El0, 10.Ell, and 10.El2. Although this is a promising start because no real
barriers to a successful design have been encountered, further iteration would focus
on the following: 1) improvement of nozzle losses for Subsonic Cruise Climb
legs; 2) improvement of inlet installation performance for Combat Air Patrol; and
3) impact of inlet and nozzle internal and external performance on the overall
engine installed performance.
The combined influences of the inlet and nozzle designs on the installed thrust
of the AAF with respect to the results of Chapter 6 (T/Tref)
are
not apparent by
viewing Tables 10.E4 and 10.E9. Since the AEDsys program does not currently
include an improved inlet model, the overall performance of the AAF will be
estimated using the data already gathered. The data now available in Tables 10.E3,
10.E4, 10.E5, 10.E8, and 10.E9 are used to estimate their combined influence on
T~ Tref using
T ..~ Jr,/ F (1
--
~inlet -- (Pnozzle)
"~ref -- 7gdspec ~eref nozzle
(1 --
4)inlet -- 4)nozzle)ref
where F/Frefl nozzle is obtained from Table 10.E8. The results are presented in
Table 10.El0. Note that the improvements in inlet performance more than com-
pensate for the decrease in nozzle performance for the majority of mission phases
and segments. The improved performance over the two Subsonic Cruise legs,
Loiter leg, and other portions of the AAF mission will more than offset the
lower installed thrust performance during the Combat Air Patrol and several other
mission phase.
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