Julius Bartaševičius, Pedro A. Fleig, Annina Metzner, M. Hornung
Optimization of aircraft’s performance often requires careful consideration of aerodynamic drag. However, direct measurement of drag of a flying vehicle is not feasible. Therefore, in order to measure the change in drag for different configurations of a flying aircraft, in-flight thrust measurement is necessary, which can consequently be used to derive drag. For this reason, the design of an in-flight thrust measurement system for a pylon-mounted jet engine is presented. The system is based on the trunnion thrust method. The design process is described, including a review of state of the art as well as measurement error consideration. Calibration methods are presented. During the calibration, the thrust root-mean-square error of 0.64 N was observed. The system was flight tested and proved to work reliably in real-life conditions. Finally, the flight test data was used to generate a thrust model based on engine parameters.
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{"title":"The Effect of Process-Induced Voids on the Transverse Strength of Partially Cured Fiber-Reinforced Composites","authors":"Shardul S. Panwar, R. D’Mello, U. Gandhi","doi":"10.2514/6.2022-2147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-2147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":192386,"journal":{"name":"AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum","volume":"257 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116170921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philipp Hastedt, J. Theis, Nicolas Sedlmair, F. Thielecke
{"title":"Load Factor Control of a Scaled Flight Test Vehicle using Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion","authors":"Philipp Hastedt, J. Theis, Nicolas Sedlmair, F. Thielecke","doi":"10.2514/6.2022-0283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-0283","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":192386,"journal":{"name":"AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum","volume":"277 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116421008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of Multi-Fidelity Physics-Informed Neural Network on Transonic Airfoil using Wind Tunnel Measurements","authors":"Kohei Harada, D. Rajaram, D. Mavris","doi":"10.2514/6.2022-0386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-0386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":192386,"journal":{"name":"AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122298308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Installed performance of ultra-high bypass turbofans: estimation of power saving in optimised configurations at steady flight","authors":"Denis Buosi, A. Magrini, E. Benini","doi":"10.2514/6.2022-0208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-0208","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":192386,"journal":{"name":"AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122331821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dagmara Stasiowska, Piotr Slawecki, Barbara Szaflarska
{"title":"How to turn one small experiment into a giant leap: experiences on the process of hybrid rocket biological payloads design","authors":"Dagmara Stasiowska, Piotr Slawecki, Barbara Szaflarska","doi":"10.2514/6.2022-0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-0036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":192386,"journal":{"name":"AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122499375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Remiddi, G. Indelicato, P. E. Lapenna, F. Creta
{"title":"Development and validation of an efficient numerical framework for Conjugate Heat Transfer in Liquid Rocket Engines","authors":"A. Remiddi, G. Indelicato, P. E. Lapenna, F. Creta","doi":"10.2514/6.2022-2119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-2119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":192386,"journal":{"name":"AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122990274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}