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Atmospheric Disturbance Environment DefinitionTraditionally, the application of atmospheric disturbance data to airplane design problems has been the domain of the structures engineer. The primary concern in this case is the design of structural components sufficient to handle transient loads induced by the most severe atmospheric "gusts" that might be encountered. The concern has resulted in a considerable body of high altitude gust acceleration data obtained with VGH recorders (airplane velocity, V, vertical acceleration, G, altitude, H) on high-flying airplanes like the U-2 (Ehernberger and Love, 1975). However, the propulsion system designer is less concerned with the accelerations of the airplane than he is with the airflow entering the system's inlet. When the airplane encounters atmospheric turbulence it responds with transient fluctuations in pitch, yaw, and roll angles. These transients, together with fluctuations in the free-stream temperature and pressure will disrupt the total pressure, temperature, Mach number and angularity of the inlet flow. For the mixed compression inlet, the result is a disturbed throat Mach number and/or shock position, and in extreme cases an inlet unstart can occur (cf. Section 2.1). Interest in the effects of inlet unstart on the vehicle dynamics of large, supersonic airplanes is not new. Results published by NASA in 1962 of wind tunnel studies of the problem were used in support of the United States Supersonic Transport program (SST) (White, at aI, 1963). Such studies continued into the late 1970's. However, in spite of such interest, there never was developed an atmospheric disturbance database for inlet unstart analysis to compare with that available for the structures load analysis. Missing were data for the free-stream temperature and pressure disturbances that also contribute to the unStart problem.
Document ID
20140010348
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
Tank, William G.
(Boeing Commercial Airplane Group Seattle, WA, United States)
Date Acquired
July 31, 2014
Publication Date
February 1, 1994
Subject Category
Aircraft Design, Testing And Performance
Aerodynamics
Report/Patent Number
GRC-E-DAA-TN12444
NASA-CR-195315
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS3-25963
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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