A theoretical and experimental program is underway at NASA Ames Research Center to first obtain a better understanding of the hazard posed by the vortex wakes of subsonic transports, and then to develop methods on how to modify the wake-generating aircraft in order to make the vortices less hazardous. This paper summarizes results obtained in the 80- by 120-Foot Wind Tunnel at NASA Ames Research Center on the characteristics of the vortex wakes that trail from 0.03 scale models of a B-747 and of a DC-10. Measurements are first described that were taken in the wakes with a hot-film anemometer probe, and with wings that range in size from 0.2 to 1.0 times the span of the wake-generating models at downstream distances of 81 ft and 162 ft behind the wake-generating model; i.e., at scale distances of 0.5 and 1.0 mile. The data are then used to evaluate the accuracy of a vortex-lattice method for prediction of the loads induced on following wings by vortex wakes.
Measurements in vortex wakes shed by conventional and modified subsonic aircraft
Messungen im Wirbelnachlauf von konventionellen und modifizierten Unterschallflugzeugen
1996
10 Seiten, 14 Bilder, 3 Tabellen, 23 Quellen
Conference paper
English
Measurements in Vortex Wakes Shed by Conventional and Modified Subsonic Aircraft
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