Requirements of modern fighter aircraft to operate with high maneuverability in the transonic speed regime may lead under certain conditions to limit cycle oscillations (LCO), produced by a structural/aerodynamic interaction. Conditions of transonic LCO are moderate angle of attack and Mach numbers ranging from 0.9 to 1.1. An analysis of steady wind tunnel data, obtained for a fighter type aircraft in a typical configuration, has indicated that shock-induced separation plays a dominant role. In the paper, a semi-empirical prediction method is presented which makes use of these steady data, and some results are shown. Possibilities are discussed to extend the method to the use of unsteady wind tunnel data.


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    Title :

    Investigation of a Semi-Empirical Method to Predict Limit Cycle Oscillations of Modern Fighter Aircraft (Meeting Paper)


    Contributors:
    J. J. Meijer (author) / R. J. Zwaan (author)

    Publication date :

    1990


    Size :

    29 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English