Education and demonstration – Vehicle operator instruction or testing – Flight vehicle
Patent
1996-04-22
1999-01-19
Richman, Glenn E.
Education and demonstration
Vehicle operator instruction or testing
Flight vehicle
434 29, G09B 942
Patent
active
058608079
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a turbulence model that has been developed for blade-element helicopter simulation. This model uses an innovative temporal and geometrical distribution algorithm that preserves the statistical characteristics of the turbulence spectra over the rotor disc, while providing velocity components in real time to each of five blade-element stations along each of four blades, for a total of twenty blade-element stations. The simulator system includes a software implementation of flight dynamics that adheres to the guidelines for turbulence set forth in military specifications. One of the features of the present simulator system is that it applies simulated turbulence to the rotor blades of the helicopter, rather than to its center of gravity. The simulator system accurately models the rotor penetration into a gust field. It includes time correlation between the front and rear of the main rotor, as well as between the side forces felt at the center of gravity and at the tail rotor. It also includes features for added realism, such as patchy turbulence and vertical gusts in to which the rotor disc penetrates. These features are realized by a unique real time implementation of the turbulence filters. The new simulator system uses two arrays one on either side of the main rotor to record the turbulence field and to produce time-correlation from the front to the rear of the rotor disc. The use of Gaussian Interpolation between the two arrays maintains the statistical properties of the turbulence across the rotor disc.
The present simulator system and method may be used in future and existing real-time helicopter simulations with minimal increase in computational workload.
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Dulsenberg Ken
McFarland R. E.
Bon Kathleen Dal
Lupuloff Harry
Mannix John G.
Richman Glenn E.
The United States of America as represented by the National Aero
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