The methods in these notes allow us to compute the overall aircraft drag. With well-designed airfoils and wings, and a careful job of engine and fuselage integration, L/D's near 20 may be achieved. Yet some aircraft with predicted L/D's of 20 have actual L/D's of 0 as exemplified by any paper airplane contest. Many aircraft have been dismal failures even though their predicted performance is gr...

Different approaches for the estimation of the states of linear dynamic systems are commonly used, the most common being the Kalman filter. For nonlinear systems, variants of the Kalman filter are used. Some of these variants include the LKF (linearized Kalman filter), the EKF (extended Kalman filter), and the UKF (unscented Kalman filter). With the LKF and EKF, performance varies depending on ...

Design Andrew Gelsey and Don Smith ([email protected], [email protected]) Computer Science Department Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Computing in Aerospace 10, San Antonio, TX, March 1995 AIAA-95-1016-CP Copyright c 1995 by Andrew Gelsey and Don Smith. Published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. with permission. Abstract The Nozzle Design Associ...

This is a joint thermodynamicand acoustic study of engines for next-generation supersonic aircraft. It explores Ž xed-cycle concepts with potential for quiet takeoff and efŽ cient cruise. The  owpath is simple, withoutmechanical suppressors.The strategy is to takearepresentative state-of-the-artmilitary turbofanengineandincrease its bypass ratio to a moderate value. The engine core stays the s...

In this paper, a baseline system which utilizes dual-channel sensor measurements for aircraft engine on-line diagnostics is developed. This system is composed of a linear on-board engine model (LOBEM) and fault detection and isolation (FDI) logic. The LOBEM provides the analytical third channel against which the dual-channel measurements are compared. When the discrepancy among the triplex chan...

Iodotrifluoromethane (CF 3 I) has been considered to be a candidate replacement for bromotrifluoromethane (CF 3 Br), which is used in aircraft for fuel inerting and for fire fighting. In this study, the chemical effects of aircraft-released CF 3 I on atmospheric ozone were examined with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 5 two-dimensional chemical-radiative-transport (UIUC 2-D CRT) ...

In order to simultaneously obtain global optimal model structure and coefficients, this paper proposes a novel Wiener model to identify the dynamic and static behavior of a gas turbine engine. An improved kernel extreme learning machine is presented to build up a bank of self-tuning block-oriented Wiener models; the time constant values of linear dynamic element in Wiener model are designed to ...

Variable Bleed Valve (VBV) as the core component of aero-engine compressor air flow control, plays a vital role in eliminating risk booster stall during transient conditions, and is an important foundation to ensure stable operation engine flight safety aircraft. In this paper, VBV certain studied build its function model carry out system simulation analysis based on AMESIM. Secondly, control e...

The problem of aircraft engine condition monitoring based on vibration signals is addressed. To do so, we compare two estimators of the Frequency Response Function of an aircrat engine which input is its shaft angular position and which output is an accelerometric signal that measures vibrations. It is shown that this problem can be seen as a smoothing problem, and that linear kernel smoothing ...