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Undergraduate
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Daytona Beach
Authors' Class Standing
Seshan Jayapregasham, Junior
Lead Presenter's Name
Seshan Jayapregasham
Faculty Mentor Name
Keshav Acharya
Abstract
Wind fields directly affect the performance of an aircraft in flight. With advancements in meteorology, air patterns and wind fields can be more accurately predicted. Through an understanding of how the behavior of these wind fields change the time needed to travel a set flight path, the duration of a set flight path can be shortened. In this presentation, I discuss the flight of an aircraft in an irrotational wind field. This study analyzes the effect of non-uniform linear wind speed on a flight in a closed-loop as a representation of a point moving in a vector field. Using previously established simplifications and representations of this situation in a fixed wind field, the basis of the study is expanded to irrotational wind fields of changing magnitude. This concept is also applied to other representations including turbine blades.
Did this research project receive funding support from the Office of Undergraduate Research.
Yes, SURF
Flight in Irrotational Wind Field
Wind fields directly affect the performance of an aircraft in flight. With advancements in meteorology, air patterns and wind fields can be more accurately predicted. Through an understanding of how the behavior of these wind fields change the time needed to travel a set flight path, the duration of a set flight path can be shortened. In this presentation, I discuss the flight of an aircraft in an irrotational wind field. This study analyzes the effect of non-uniform linear wind speed on a flight in a closed-loop as a representation of a point moving in a vector field. Using previously established simplifications and representations of this situation in a fixed wind field, the basis of the study is expanded to irrotational wind fields of changing magnitude. This concept is also applied to other representations including turbine blades.