Semi-active system for providing a required fluid flow
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsPeter Kreuzer, Hubert Stuke, Udo Krause
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Abstract
A semi-active system for providing a required fluid flow, the system comprising an outlet configured to protrude into the main flow direction of an external fluid flow external to the semi-active system, an exhaust channel provided, in relation to the main flow direction of the external fluid flow, beneath the outlet, the exhaust channel being configured to inject an exhaust fluid flow into the external fluid flow, a device configured to produce a jet fluid flow and a pipe provided within the exhaust channel, the pipe being configured to fluid-communicatively couple to the device, and entrain, by the produced jet fluid flow, the exhaust fluid flow.
Claims15
A semi-active system for providing a required fluid flow, the system comprising:
- an outlet protruding from a surface into a main flow direction of an external fluid flow along the surface and external to the semi-active system;
- an exhaust channel provided, in relation to the main flow direction of the external fluid flow, beneath the outlet, the exhaust channel being configured to inject an exhaust fluid flow into the external fluid flow so that the exhaust fluid flows along the surface with the external fluid flow;
- a device configured to produce a jet fluid flow;
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- a pipe provided within the exhaust channel, the pipe being configured to:
- fluid-communicatively couple to the device, and
- entrain, by the produced jet fluid flow, the exhaust fluid flow,
- wherein the pipe comprises a first end connected to the device and a second, open end disposed within in the exhaust channel and below the outlet.
An aircraft, comprising the semi-active system of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the semi-active system is part of at least one of the following aircraft components:
- a wing,
- a belly fairing,
- a fuselage,
- a vertical tail plane, and
- a horizontal tail plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.