The effectiveness of various candidate aircraft-wing devices for attenuation of trailing vortices generated by large aircraft is evaluated on basis of results of experiments conducted with a 0.03-scale model of a Boeing 747 transport aircraft using a technique developed at the HYDRONAUTICS Ship Model Basin. Emphasis is on the effects produced by these devices in the far-field (up to 8 kilometers downstream of full-scale generating aircraft) where the unaltered vortex-wakes could still be hazardous to small following aircraft. The evaluation is based primarily on quantitative measurements of the respective vortex velocity distributions made by means of hot-film probe traverses in a transverse plane at selected stations downstream. The effects of these altered wakes on rolling moment induced on a small following aircraft are also studied using a modified lifting-surface theory with a synthesized Gates Learjet as a typical example. Lift and drag measurements concurrently obtained in the model tests are used to appraise the effects of each device investigated on the performance characteristics of the generating aircraft. (Author)


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    Title :

    Evaluation of Effectiveness of Various Devices for Attenuation of Trailing Vortices Based on Model Tests in a Large Towing Basin


    Contributors:
    K. L. Kirkman (author) / C. E. Brown (author) / A. Goodman (author)

    Publication date :

    1973


    Size :

    114 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English







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