Store Separation Lessons Learned During the Last 30 Years

Abstract

Any time a new aircraft is introduced into service, or an old aircraft undergoes substantial modifications or needs to be certified to carry and employ new stores, the store separation engineer is faced with a decision about how much effort will be required to provide an airworthiness certification for the aircraft and stores. Generally, there are three approaches that have been used: Wind Tunnel Testing Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analyses and Flight Testing. During the past thirty years there have been considerable advances in all three areas. In particular, the US Navy has developed a method for combining the three approaches in a process called the Integrated Test and Evaluation Approach to Modeling & Simulation for Store Separation. This paper describes how this process has evolved over the past thirty years.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA538155

Entities

People

  • A. Cenko

Organizations

  • Naval Air Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Bombs
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Engineers
  • Flight Testing
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • High Performance Computing
  • Lessons Learned
  • Mach Number
  • Satellite Guided Weapons
  • Scale Models
  • Simulations
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Wind Tunnel Tests
  • Wind Tunnels

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Systems Analysis and Design