Evaluation of effectiveness of various devices for attenuation of trailing vortices based on model tests in a large towing basin
- Author:
- Goodman, A.
- Published:
- Dec 1, 1973.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic document
- Additional Creators:
- Kirkman, K. L. and Brown, C. E.
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- The effectiveness of various candidate aircraft-wing devices for attenuation of trailing vortices generated by large aircraft is evaluated on basis of results of experiments conducted with a 0.03-scale model of a Boeing 747 transport aircraft using a technique developed at the HYDRONAUTICS Ship Model Basin. Emphasis is on the effects produced by these devices in the far-field (up to 8 kilometers downstream of full-scale generating aircraft) where the unaltered vortex-wakes could still be hazardous to small following aircraft. The evaluation is based primarily on quantitative measurements of the respective vortex velocity distributions made by means of hot-film probe traverses in a transverse plane at selected stations downstream. The effects of these altered wakes on rolling moment induced on a small following aircraft are also studied using a modified lifting-surface theory with a synthesized Gates Learjet as a typical example. Lift and drag measurements concurrently obtained in the model tests are used to appraise the effects of each device investigated on the performance characteristics of the generating aircraft.
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- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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- Document ID: 19740007597.
Accession ID: 74N15710.
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