Print Email Facebook Twitter The response of aircraft to two-dimensional vertical turbulence Title The response of aircraft to two-dimensional vertical turbulence Author Noback, R. Institution National Aerospace Laboratory NLR Date 1991-09-16 Abstract Equations for the response of an aircraft to two-dimensional vertical atmospheric turbulence have been derived, both for an aircraft regarded as a continuous system and for an aircraft split up into a number of panels. These equations have been applied to an aircraft model with two degrees of freedom of the size of the Fokker 100, respectively. Two-dimensional turbulence gives a reduction of the loads with respect to one-dimensional turbulence. The reduction of the acceleration in the centre of gravity and the reduction of the wing root bending moment, for the second aircraft model, is 3 percent and 6-8 percent, respectively. Subject Two-dimensional flowAtmospheric turbulenceVertical distributionTransport aircraftPower spectraMathematical modelsDegrees of freedomGust loadsDynamic loadsCross-correlation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f23db8ee-561a-48d7-98a1-cdf9f7c21671 Publisher Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium Access restriction Campus only Source NLR Technical Publication TP 91357 U Part of collection Aerospace Engineering Reports Document type report Rights (c)1991 National Aerospace Laboratory NLR Files campus only