The Response of Aircraft Encountering Aircraft Wake Turbulence

Abstract

The investigation deals with the dynamic behavior of an airplane encountering aircraft wake turbulence. A digital computer simulation was developed to study the response of an aircraft flying into a trailing vortex wake. The simulation includes the complete six degree of freedom equations of motion, a description of the vortex velocity field, unsteady aerodynamics, and pilot control input. The parameters included the penetration angle, separation distance, aircraft size, and pilot control input. Predicted vortex induced motions are presented for general aviation, business, and light jet transport type aircraft.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0787193

Entities

People

  • Robert C. Nelson

Organizations

  • Flight Dynamics Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Detection
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Flight Paths
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Jet Transport Aircraft
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Test Facilities
  • Transport Aircraft
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.