Innovative Fusion of Experiment and Analysis for Missile Design and Flight Simulation

Abstract

The integration of experimental data and computational databases is key to supporting decisions during the development of missile systems. An innovative technique is demonstrated to increase the accuracy of databases used for comprehensive flight simulations of missiles. This technique uses multidimensional response surface technology to mutually enhance heterogeneous data sets. An important application of this technology is the use of sparse data points from limited wind tunnel tests to correct/calibrate computational databases used in flight simulations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA500914

Entities

People

  • Daniel J. Lesieutre
  • John F. Love
  • Marnix F. Dillenius
  • Patrick H. Reisenthel

Organizations

  • Nielsen Engineering & Research (United States)

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Defense
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Experimental Data
  • Flight Simulations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Information Science
  • Mach Number
  • Reliability
  • Simulations
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Wind Tunnel Tests
  • Wind Tunnels

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Fluid Dynamics.