Measurement of Ship Air Wake Impact on a Remotely Piloted Vehicle

Abstract

This Trident Scholar project complemented an ongoing research program being conducted at the United States Naval Academy (USNA) involving an investigation of ship air wakes using an instrumented training and patrol (YP) craft. The objective of the program is to validate Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools that will be useful in determining ship air wake impact on naval rotary wing vehicles. Because the YPs are relatively large vessels with a similar superstructure and deck configuration to that of a cruiser or a destroyer, air wake data can be collected that corresponds well with that of modern naval warships. Data collected from both at-sea measurements and wind tunnel testing are being compared with CFD models already used to help predict ship air wake effects.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 09, 2012
Accession Number
ADA575815

Entities

People

  • Jason D. Metzger

Organizations

  • United States Naval Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Flight Decks
  • Flight Paths
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Helicopters
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Measurement
  • Navy
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Simulations
  • United States Naval Academy
  • Uss Ticonderoga
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.