26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-4.5.3

AERODYNAMIC DESIGN AND ITS VALIDATION OF AN OPEN-TYPE ENGINE RUN-UP FACILITY

M. Kawai, K. Nagai, S. Aso*
IHI Corporation, Japan; *Kyushu Univ., Japan

Keywords: Aircraft, Run-up Facility, Aerodynamic Characteristics, CFD, Wind Tunnel

The aerodynamic characteristics of an open-type engine run-up facility (RUF) have been studied by wind tunnel experiment and CFD to provide a new design procedure. Then the validation test has been performed for the actual RUF constructed based on the procedure. All the validations and commercial operations went successfully.

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