Abstract During an aircraft taxiing on a water-contaminated runway, the worn tires with shallower grooves will significantly deteriorate the safety of take-off and landing. The hydrodynamics generated by the tire-water-pavement interaction is numerically studied using the coupling method of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Finite Element Method. By comparing a completely worn tire with a new tire, the effects of tire wear on water spray and water displacement drag are analyzed. With the increasing tire speed and water film depth, the water spray composed of bow wave and side plume increases, and the water displacement drag decomposed of wave- and film-generated components also increases. The effects of tire wear depend on the relative height of tire grooves to the water film depth. For the shallow water film with a depth smaller than the grooves height, the water spray and water displacement drag of new tire is much smaller than those of worn tire, because the groove drainage effect can work very well. While for the deep water film that completely floods the grooves, the water spray and water displacement drag of new tire are similar with those of worn tires, because the groove drainage effect cannot be fully utilized.


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    Title :

    Effect of aircraft tire wear on water spray and water displacement drag


    Contributors:
    Ge, Chenhui (author) / Liu, Peiqing (author) / Qu, Qiulin (author) / Hu, Tianxiang (author) / Zhang, Jin (author)


    Publication date :

    2024-02-20




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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