{"id":533,"date":"2017-11-16T13:35:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T19:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2018-09-28T08:34:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T13:34:32","slug":"guest-lecture-inlet-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/guest-lecture-inlet-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Lecture: Inlet Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we learn the basics of aircraft inlet design.<\/p>\n<p>This November, I was asked to provide a substitute lecture to a senior level propulsion class (AEM 408). For this lecture, I attempted to provide the basics of inlet design by discussing the relevant physics and constraints.<\/p>\n<p>Inlet fan face total pressure was introduced as a way to quantify the performance of an inlet and to diagnose common issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-534\" src=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Untitled-300x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Untitled-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Untitled.png 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The concept of boundary layer growth with the inlet&#8217;s adverse pressure gradient was reinforced from an earlier Aerodynamics I course.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-538\" src=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Untitled2-1-300x49.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"49\" srcset=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Untitled2-1-300x49.png 300w, https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Untitled2-1.png 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The lecture notes are available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/docs\/InletTalkAEM408.pdf\">https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/docs\/InletTalkAEM408.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks and best wishes to the UA Aero Seniors.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. O&#8217;Neill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we learn the basics of aircraft inlet design. This November, I was asked to provide a substitute lecture to a senior level propulsion class (AEM 408). For this lecture, I attempted to provide the basics of inlet design by discussing the relevant physics and constraints. Inlet fan face total pressure was introduced as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}