The Equations of Motion of an Aircraft Embracing its Whole-Body and Deformational Degrees of Freedom.

Abstract

This Report is intended as a contribution to the problem of unifying and relating the approaches adopted by the flight dynamicist who makes small perturbation studies of the behaviour of an aircraft in, primarily, its whole-body degrees of freedom, and by the structural dynamicist who makes similar studies of the behaviour in its deformational degrees of freedom. The Report outlines a framework for a common approach. It goes as far as deriving the equations of motion, and showing how the terms etc in these equations relate to those traditionally used by the flight dynamicist and structural dynamicist. It does not discuss the subsequent approximations, simplifications and assumptions that then have to be made to assist in solving the equations. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 15, 1979
Accession Number
ADA069784

Entities

People

  • C. H. E. Warren

Organizations

  • Royal Aircraft Establishment

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Forces
  • Aircrafts
  • Birds
  • Centrifugal Force
  • Coefficients
  • Displacement
  • Dynamics
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Flight
  • Frequency
  • Kinematics
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Law
  • Mach Number
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Translations

Readers

  • Inertial Navigation Systems.
  • Theoretical Analysis.