21.1K Views. Source: Alexander S Rattner; Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Aircraft, rockets, and ships produce propulsion by accelerating surrounding fluid or high temperature combu
A method for determining the thrust of an aircraft engine, based on information available from tracking the aircraft air-speed, acceleration, and position, the method comprising calculating the thrust, using the equation Thrust = mgH'/V + mV' + Drag, where m is the aircraft estimated mass, ...
Two aircraft tied to a tree Conversely, a piston engine produces work by turning the propeller, that is, by creating torque on the propeller. It doesn't create any force on the plane by itself; so a piston engine has no thrust. The propeller is the entity that accelerates the air and ...
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Because of the existence of the overdetermined equation, the solving of controller parameters will become a multi-solution problem. When we try to figure out ur by solving Eq. (33), the controller parameters are not unique. PSO is a stochastic evolutionary computation technique used for ...
Book2022, Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students (Seventh Edition) T.H.G. Megson Explore book Thrust structure The loads (thrust), which can be of the order of 15,000 kN produced by the propulsion system, are transferred into the main stages of the launch vehicle by means of the thru...
is chosen as the primary nozzle configuration investigated in the present work. The question to be answered is whether fluidic thrust vectoring in combination with jet engines of aircraft flying at subsonic velocities can be implemented with this method. For this purpose, the influence of geometric ...
[15] investigated the impact of engine architecture and installation position on the aerodynamic behaviour of a wide-body 300-seater aircraft using RANS CFD. A parametric geometry definition based on intuitive Class-Shape Transformation functions (iCSTs) [31] was employed for the design of the ...
In this equation, distance h is taken positive when the exit plane of the pivot nozzle is as shown in FIG. 1c, while h < 0 is true for a disposition as shown in FIG. 1a, and h = 0 is true for the particular case of FIG. 1b. ...
Recalling that equation (11) utilizing angle of attack (α ) information defined the compensation signal: ##EQU9## and that the forward acceleration of an aircraft is defined by: ##EQU10## where W = weight of the aircraft g = gravity acceleration ...