This paper presents comparisons of buffet forcing functions (BFFs) and associated structural responses for the Space Launch System from two data sources: 1) Artemis I (AR01) Developmental Flight Instrumentation (DFI) and 2) transonic wind-tunnel (WT) tests. Failures of DFI sensors prevented the development of a complete set of flight-based BFFs, where each BFF is based on azimuthal integration over 360-degrees of unsteady pressures acquired by sensor rings placed at many longitudinal stations along the vehicle. Instead, a set of equivalent flight- and WT-based BFFs was developed based on functional DFI and WT sensors that share the same locations. Root-mean-square (rms) levels of equivalent BFFs from flight and WT data are in-family for most of the cardinal Mach numbers. However, at stations downstream of the booster forward attachment (FA) protuberance, the rms of flight-based BFFs exceed their WT counterparts. Strikingly, vortex-shedding off the FA protuberance occurs at lower frequencies during flight than in WT experiments. This frequency shift propagates onto the spectrum of flight-measured vs. WT-based structural responses. Aside from vortex-shedding frequency mismatch, a generally good agreement between AR01 and WT-based responses is an indirect indication that WT buffet environments are fairly well representative of their AR01 counterpart.


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    Title :

    Comparisons of Artemis I and Wind Tunnel Buffet Environments and Induced Structural Responses


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    AIAA SciTech 2024 ; 2024 ; Orlando, FL, US


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    Conference paper


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    English




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