A series of flight tests over the ocean of a four engine turboprop airplane in the cruise configuration have provided a data set for improved understanding of wake vortex physics and atmospheric interaction. An integrated database has been compiled for wake characterization and validation of wake-vortex computational models. This paper describes the wake-vortex flight tests, the data processing, the database development and access, and results obtained from preliminary wake-characterization analysis using the data sets.
Recent NASA Wake-Vortex Flight Tests, Flow-Physics Database and Wake-Development Analysis
1998
14 pages
Report
No indication
English
Fluid Mechanics , Data bases , Flight tests , Vortices , Aircraft wakes , Mathematical models , Nasa programs , Flow distribution , Turboprop aircraft , Data reduction , Kinetic energy , Spectral energy distribution , Turbulence , Velocity distribution , Cruising flight , Ov-10 aircraft , Ocean surface , C-130 aircraft
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