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Adp Fighter Aircraft
Adp Fighter Aircraft
1. CD-Drag coefficient
2. CDO-Zero lift drag coefficient
3. Cj-Specific fuel consumption for jet engine
4. CL-Lift coefficient
5. Cp –Specific fuel consumption for propeller driven aircraft
6. e-Ostwald efficiency factor
7. g-Acceleration due to gravity
8. L/D-Lift to drag ratio
9. Mff-Mission fuel fraction
10. N-time increment for free roll just after touchdown, before brakes are applied
11. R/C-Rate of climb
12. R-Range of the aircraft
13. sa –Approach distance
14. sf –Flare distance
15. sg –ground roll
16. S-Wing area
17. V∞-Free stream velocity
18. Vf-Flare velocity
19. Vstall-Stall velocity
20. W/S-Wing loading
21. WF(res)-Reserve fuel weight
22. WF(used)-Weight of the fuel used during the mission
23. WTFO-Trapped fuel weight
24. WTO-Takeoff weight
25. ηp -Propeller efficiency
26. A.R. - Aspect Ratio
27. B - Wing Span (m)
28. C - Chord of the Airfoil (m)
29. C root - Chord at Root (m)
30. C tip - Chord at Tip (m)
31. Mean Aerodynamic Chord (m)
32. D - Drag (N)
33. E - Endurance (hr)
34. L - Lift (N)
35. (L/D)loiter - Lift-to-drag ratio at loiter
36. (L/D)cruise - Lift-to-drag ratio at cruise
37. M - Mach number of aircraft
38. Mff - Mission fuel fraction
39. R - Range (km)
40. Re - Reynolds Number
41. S - Wing Area (m²)
42. Sref - Reference surface area
43. Swet - Wetted surface area
44. Sa - Approach distance (m)
45. Sf - Flare Distance (m)
46. Sfr - Free roll Distance (m)
47. Sg - Ground roll Distance (m)
48. T - Thrust (N)
49. Tcruise - Thrust at cruise (N)
50. Ttake-off - Thrust at take-off (N)
51. (T/W)loiter - Thrust-to-weight ratio at loiter
52. (T/W)cruise - Thrust-to-weight ratio at cruise
53. (T/W)take-off - Thrust-to-weight ratio at take-off
54. Vcruise - Velocity at cruise (m/s)
55. Vstall - Velocity at stall (m/s)
56. Vt - Velocity at touch down (m/s)
57. Wcrew - Crew weight (kg)
58. Wempty - Empty weight of aircraft (kg)
59. Wfuel - Weight of fuel (kg)
60. Wpayload - Payload of aircraft (kg)
61. W0 - Overall weight of aircraft (kg)
62. W/S - Wing loading (kg/m²)
63. ρ - Density of air (kg/m³)
64. μ- Dynamic viscosity (Ns/m²)
65. λ - Tapered ratio
66. µr - Co-efficient of rolling friction
67. θOB - Angle between flight path and take-off
68. β - Turning angle
69. ϕ -Gliding angle
AIM:
To make a brief study of aircraft designing process with the aid of computer software
and to analyze the results of fighter jet aircraft in three view diagram.
INTRODUCTION:
The aircraft design process is the engineering design process by which aircraft are
designed. These depend on many factors such as customer and manufacturer demand,
safety protocols, physical and economic constraints etc. For some types of aircraft,
the design process is regulated by national airworthiness authorities. This article deals
with powered aircraft such as airplanes and helicopter designs.
Aircraft design is a compromise between many competing factors and constraints and
accounts for existing designs and market requirements to produce the best aircraft.
AIRCRAFT PURPOSE:
The starting point of any new aircraft is to clearly identify its purpose. The humans
made aircrafts by seeing the birds flying high in the air without even falling onto the
ground. Many people tried to fly in the air with the help of artificial wings but they
have flown only for few minutes later, many developments in building an airplane
that can sustain for many hours in the air is made by WRIGHT BROTHER. They
made it successfully after series of failures. Now, the world without an aircraft is
unimaginable. The purpose of the aircraft is grouped into different categories based
on the work they do. Such categories include combat aircraft, fighter aircraft and
general aviation aircraft.
DESIGN PROCESS:
The aircraft design process is the engineering design process by which aircraft are
designed by specific trained design engineers. The design process is made by any
changes in the previous design aircraft and required result is made. In the early years
of aircraft design, designers used analytical theory to do the various engineering
calculation that go into the design process along with a lot of experimentation. The
recent development made in design process is that designs are made in computer and
any changes can also be made easily. The designing software named “COMPUTER-
AIDED DESIGN”. In this software any aircraft design can be made with ease efforts
and results also provided in an accurate manner. The various advanced software is
Auto CAD, Catia, Ansys, CFD, Nastran, Creo etc.2D, 3D and analysis can be made
with great accuracy for designing an aircraft.
-M. Cobanli
Every Airplane goes through many changes in design before it is finally built. These
steps enable the design engineer to make a flawless design process with accuracy.
Along the way, it has four main areas of aeronautics in which a designer should
concentrate to make a successful aircraft design. These are Aerodynamics,
Propulsion, Structures and Materials, Stability and control.
Aerodynamics is the study of motion of air, particularly its interaction with a solid
object. It is derived from Greek Word Air + Dynamics. Studying the motion of air
around an object allow us to measure the forces of lift, gravity and drag. The four
main forces of the aircraft which helps to fly in the atmosphere are Lift, Thrust,
Weight and Drag.
Propulsion means to push forward or drive an object forward. The term is derived
from two Latin words PRO meaning forward or before and PELLERE meaning to
drive. A propulsion system consists of source of mechanical power and converting
this power into a propulsive force which drives the aircraft in forward motion with
the help of aerodynamics.
Structures and Materials is the study of how strong the airplane is and what materials
can be used to withstand the weight of the entire airplane in atmosphere. It is very
important that airplane should be light as possible so that it can fly with ease effort
but designing an aircraft with less weight is quite impossible. So the choosing of
materials like composites makes a difference in weight and can produce desired
performance efficiently.
Stability and Control is the study of how an airplane handles and interacts to pilot
input and feed. The pilot needs to be able to process the correct data quickly, and to
make designs in an appropriate situation. In earlier days, the cockpit was made to
work mechanically rather than electrically but, today the flight controls are made in
fly-by-wire systems which has made the pilot effort much easier.
DESIGN OF AN AIRPLANE:
Airplane design is both an art and a science. It’s the intellectual engineering process
of creating on paper (or on a computer screen) a flying machine to
Conceptual design
Preliminary design
Detailed design
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN:
The design process starts with a set of specifications (requirements) for a new
airplane, or much less frequently as the response to the desire to implement some
pioneering, innovative new ideas and technology. In either case, there is a rather
concrete good towards which the designers are aiming. The first steps towards
achieving that goal constitute the conceptual design phase. Here, within a certain
somewhat fuzzy latitude, the overall shape, size, weight and performance of the new
design are determined.
Structural and context system considerations are not dealt with in any detail.
However, they are not totally absent. During the conceptual design phase, the
designer is influenced by such qualitative as the increased structural loads imposed
by a high horizontal tail location trough the fuselage, and the difficulties associated
with cutouts in the wing structure if the landing gear are to be retracted into the wing
rather than the fuselage or engine nacelle. No part of the design is ever carried out in
a total vacuum unrelated to the other parts.
PRELIMINARY DESIGN:
In the preliminary design phase, only minor changes are made to the configuration
layout (indeed, if major changes were demanded during this phase, the conceptual
design process have been actually flawed to begin with. It is in the preliminary design
phase that serious structural and control system analysis and design take place.
During the phase also, substantial wind tunnel testing will be carried out and major
computational fluid dynamics (CFD).Calculations of the computer flow fluid over the
airplane configurations, it’s possible that the wind tunnel tests the CFD calculations
will in cover some undesirable aerodynamic interference or some unexpected stability
problems which will promote change to the configuration layout. The end of the
preliminary design phase brings a major concept to commit the manufacture of the
airplane or not. The importance of this decision point for modern aircraft
manufacturers cannot be understated, considering the tremendous costs involved in
the design and manufacture of a new airplane. This is no better illustrated.
DETAIL DESIGN:
The detail design phase is literally the nuts and bolts phase of airplane design. The
aerodynamic, propulsion, structures performance and flight control analysis have all
been finished with the preliminary design phase. For detail design. The airplane is
now simply a machine to be fabricated. The pressure design of each. Individual rib,
spar and section of skin now take place. The size of number and location of fastness
are determined. At this stage, flight simulators for the airplane are developed. And
these are just a few of the many detailed requirements during the detail design phase.
At the end of this phase, the aircraft is ready to be fabricated.
For any new airplane design. There must be some established requirements which
serve as the jumping off point for the design process, and which serve as the focused
goal for the completed design. Typical aspects are frequently stipulated in the
requirements are some combination of the following,
RANGE,
STALLING VELOCITY,
ENDURANCE,
MAXIMUM VELOCITY,
RATE OF CLIMB,
SERVICE CEILING.
CRITICAL PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS:
Requirements stipulate the performance of the new aircraft. The critical parameters are:
Maximum lift coefficient.
Lift to drag ratio (L/D).
Thrust to weight ratio (T/W).
Therefore, the next step is to make first estimates of W/S and T/W to achieve the
performance as stipulated by requirements.
CONFIGURATION LAYOUT:
The configuration layout is a drawing of the shape and size of the airplane as evolved
till stage. The critical performance parameters along with first weight estimate helps to
draw the configuration and approximate the size of the aircraft.
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS:
This is the point where the configuration is judged if it can meet all original
specifications. An interactive process is initiated where the configuration is modified.
The critical performance parameters are adjusted for improving performance. In this
stage, some mature decisions should be made as the specifications or cost or
unavailable technology.
Hence some specifications might be relaxed so that others might get higher
priority.
OPTIMIZATION:
When iterative process is over, it has produced a viable airplane. This leads to
optimization. The optimization analysis is carried out may be carried out by a
systematic variation of different parameters T/W, W/S and plotting the performance of
graphs which can be found using a sizing matrix or a carpet plot from which optimum
design can be found.
WEIGHT OF AIRPLANE – FIRST ESTIMATE:
No airplane can take off the ground unless it produces a lift greater than its weight.
There should be a first estimate of gross takeoff weight. The weight estimate is the next
pivot point after the requirements. Lilienthal, Langley and Wright brothers knew more
weight means more drag. This needed an engine with greater power and hence more
weight.
CONSTRAINT DIAGRAM:
A constraint diagram is constructed which identifies allowable solution space for
airplane design. A constraint diagram consists of plots of the sea – level thrust to takeoff
weight ratio versus wing loading at takeoff weight ratio TO/WO versus wing loading
at takeoff WO /S determined by intellectual pivot point.
SIZING
AND
TRADE
STUDIES
REQUIREME
NTS DESIGN
ANALYSIS
DESIGN
CONCE
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CLASSIFICATION OF AIRPLANES:
1. FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS
a. Civil Airplanes.
b. Military Airplanes.
Civil Airplanes Military Airplanes
Cargo transport Strategic fighters
Passenger travel Interceptors
Mail distribution Escort fighters
Agricultural Tactical bombers
Ambulance Strategic bombers
Executive transport Ground attack airplanes
Training Photo-reconnaissance airplanes
Sports Multipurpose airplanes
Air taxi & charter
Forestry
Fish and wildlife sanctuary
Construction
Aerial photography
Off- shore drilling
v. Rockets.
b. Number of engines
i. Single Engine.
iii. Multi-Engine.
1. At the root.
iv. Engines (jet) in nacelles suspended under the wing (pod mountings).
3. CLASSIFICATION BY CONFIGURATION
a. Shape and position of wing.
b. Type of fuselage.
c. Location of horizontal tail surfaces.
d. Types of Landing gear
DESIGN SEQUENCE
It’s the collection of data of various airplanes to consolidate the data for the airplane
that we design. Around 2 airplanes with their design parameters are compared.
F22 Raptor
Falcon F16
MIG 29
Thunderbolt A10
Eurofighter typhoon
Chengdu J10
Harrier
Mirrage 2000D
Rafale
Super hornet F18
Gripen
Tejas
Eagle F15
Mitsubishi F2
CAC F7
Finback F8
FBC
Jaguar
AMX
Lightning F35
Sukhoi 25
LOCKHEED MARTIN F22 RAPTOR
Sl. Name of the Aspect Ratio Wing Span Length Wing Wing Loading
Empty
Sl. Gross Maximum Take-
Name of the Aircraft Weight
No. Weight (Kg) off Weight (Kg)
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Maximum Speed(m/s)
3000
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Range(Km)
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Maximum Speed(m/s)
Range(Km) vs Cruising Speed(m/s)
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Cruising Speed(m/s)
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