Abstract: A method and apparatus for boundary layer control by sucking air off the vortex chambers established in the trailing-edge portion of an aircraft aerodynamic surface. The rate of air bleed is controlled first by increasing it until the boundary layer is attached to the airstreamed surface, then by decreasing the rate of air bleed until the pressure in the trailing-edge aircraft portion starts decreasing. The aircraft equipped with the boundary layer control system, including a number of vortex chambers accommodating streamlined bodies and communicating, through a common passage and a receiver, with a low-pressure source.
Inventors:
Anatoly I. Savitsky, Lev N. Schukin, Viktor G. Karelin, Aleksandr M. Mass, Rostislav M. Pushkin, Anatoly P. Shibanov, Ilya L. Schukin, Sergei V. Fischenko