Airflow control system and aircraft
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorYuki Morisaki
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Abstract
Provided is an airflow control system for controlling airflow flowing over an upper surface of an aircraft. The airflow control system includes: a blowout port that is provided on a forward side of the upper surface of the aircraft to blow out the airflow; a suction port that is provided closer to the forward side than the blowout port to suck outside air; a fan that is provided on a rearward side of the blowout port to suck air flowing from a forward side and to discharge the air to a rearward side; and a compressor that is provided in a channel extending from the suction port to the blowout port to increase pressure of the outside air sucked from the suction port and to pressure-feed the resulting outside air to the blowout port.
Claims6
An airflow control system for controlling airflow flowing over an upper surface of a main wing of an aircraft, the airflow control system comprising:
- a blowout port that is provided on the upper surface of the main wing on a leading edge side of the main wing to blow out the airflow;
- a suction port that is provided on a leading edge of the main wing and farther forward on the main wing than the blowout port to suck outside air;
- a fan that is provided on a trailing edge side of the main wing and closer to a trailing edge of the main wing than the blowout port to suck air flowing from the leading edge side of the main wing and to discharge the air to the trailing edge side of the main wing, the fan being provided on an outer surface of the main wing;
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- a compressor that is provided in a channel extending from the suction port to the blowout port to increase pressure of the outside air sucked from the suction port and to pressure-feed the resulting outside air to the blowout port.
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