Speaker
Jake Raugh
(Randolph Macon College)
Description
All lift generating aircrafts produce a pair of counter-rotating vortices in their wake, making it extremely dangerous for any aircraft to follow. This project explored and mathematically modelled the characteristics of these vortices, and compared them to experimental wind tunnel data measured by NASA. The vertical velocity of these vortices was modelled, and the model’s five parameters were optimized, producing an R2 value of 0.972. The normalized induced lift and rolling moment on three downstream test wings were also mathematically calculated and compared to this data, resulting in R2 values of 0.94, 0.96, and 0.985 for the three wings considered in the experiment.
Primary author
Jake Raugh
(Randolph Macon College)
