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Applications of bifurcation methods to F-18/HARV open-loop dynamics in landing configuration

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Title Applications of bifurcation methods to F-18/HARV open-loop dynamics in landing configuration
 
Creator SINHA, NK
 
Subject flight dynamics
aircraft
maneuvers
bifurcation methods
standard bifurcation analysis
open-loop dynamics
flight control
flight instabilities
nonlinear aircraft dynamics
nonlinear dynamics
flight mechanics
fighter aircraft
aircraft instabilities prediction
wing rock motion
 
Description Over the past two decades. bifurcation and continuation methods have emerged as efficient tools for prediction. and control of flight instabilities, Bifurcation phenomena have been associated with nonlinear behaviour of aircraft in actual flight tests. and the critical control combinations. which signify onset of instabilities. have been identified for almost all generations of modern fighter aircraft. A standard bifurcation analysis procedure has been used in the past. In this paper, the bifurcation theory. relevant to preliminary bifurcation analysis of nonlinear aircraft dynamics. has been introduced. and a stepwise methodology used in a standard bifurcation analysis procedure has been illustrated with an application to open-loop dynamics of an F-18/HARV model in landing configuration. Further, an example manoeuvre is constructed. and numerical time simulations of an F-18/HARV model in this manoeuvre is carried Out to validate the predictions from the bifurcation analysis. Numerical time simulation results confirm the onset of nonlinear behaviour at critical control combinations identified in bifurcation analysis of the aircraft model, Thus. bifurcation methods, in conjunction with selective numerical simulations. can be extremely useful in the design, development. evaluation. and flight training phases of a fighter aircraft development programme.
 
Publisher DEFENCE SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION DOCUMENTATION CENTRE
 
Date 2011-07-21T08:11:24Z
2011-12-26T12:51:57Z
2011-12-27T05:38:49Z
2011-07-21T08:11:24Z
2011-12-26T12:51:57Z
2011-12-27T05:38:49Z
2002
 
Type Article
 
Identifier DEFENCE SCIENCE JOURNAL, 52(2), 103-115
0011-748X
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/5843
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/5843
 
Language en