摘要 |
1,106,938. Boundary layer control. AMERICAN RADIATOR & STANDARD SANITARY CORPORATION. 17 Dec., 1965 [2 Aug., 1965], No. 53579/65. Heading F2R. A vehicle, which may be an aircraft, air cushion vehicle or road vehicle, formed with a bluff rear end face (e.g. a planar trailing edge surface of a supersonic wing or the rear wall of a vehicle body) is formed around the periphery of such rear end face with a slot which extends substantially continuously is connected to a lowpressure plenum chamber whereby boundary layer air is drawn off to reduce the turbulent wake and resulting form drag. Various profiles of slot are described. |