The trans-media aircraft water entry process generates strong slamming loads that will seriously affect the stability and safety of the aircraft. To address this problem, we design a fixed-wing aircraft configuration and employ numerical simulations with the volume of fluid (VOF) multiphase flow model, standard k-epsilon turbulence model, and dynamic mesh technique. We explore the characteristics of aircraft subjected to bang loads under different conditions. The results show the following: the pressure load on the aircraft surface increases with higher water entry velocity; larger entry angles lead to more drastic changes in the aircraft’s drag coefficient, demonstrating strong nonlinear characteristics; the greater the angle of attack into the water, the greater the pressure load on the root underneath the wing, with little effect on the pressure load on the head; and the water entry drag coefficient and average pressure load follow an increasing order of conical head, hemispherical head, and flat head. These findings provide theoretical references for studying the load characteristics during trans-media water entry of various flying bodies and optimizing fuselage structural strength.


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    Title :

    Research of Slamming Load Characteristics during Trans-Media Aircraft Entry into Water


    Contributors:
    Xinyu Liu (author) / Liguo Tan (author) / Xinbin Zhang (author) / Liang Li (author)


    Publication date :

    2024




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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