Mean-Level Detection Utilizing a Digital First-Order Recursive Filter

The use of a simple digital first-order recursive filter for mean-level detection is described. Performance characteristics are derived for the case where the background noise is stationary, and detection results are given for Swerling Case 2 fluctuating signals. Equations are derived for computing false-alarm performance in nonstationary backgrounds, and results are given for some special cases. Comparisons are made with performance of a conventional mean-level circuit in stationary and nonstationary noise.     

Analysis of CA-CFAR processors for linear-law detection

A method for evaluating the performance of cell-averaging constant false alarm rate (CA-CFAR) processors which use the amplitude of echo signals rather than their squared amplitude is presented. Results for the case of Rayleigh clutter/noise statistics are given. Detection probabilities are evaluated for the case of a Rayleigh fluctuating target embedded in Rayleigh clutter/noise for linear-law CA-CFAR processors. These results are observed to be practically identical to those of square-law CA-CFAR processors for which analytical expressions are readily available. These observations are verified using Monte Carlo simulations. The same conclusion is reached in the case of a nonfluctuating target embedded in Rayleigh clutter/noise for which only simulation results are presented     

Correlated K-distributed clutter generation for radar detection andtrack

The generation of correlated vectors for non-Gaussian clutter is considered for log normal, Weibull, and K-probability distributions. Previous results for log normal and Weibull distributions are summarized. Expressions for the probability distributions and moments of K-distributed clutter of any correlation are derived. Procedures for forming samples of each type of clutter are shown to be equivalent to passing white Gaussian noise through a linear filter followed by a nonlinear operation. Curves of correlation coefficients necessary for the simulation of these vectors are presented for each distribution     

Tools and techniques for estimating high intensity RF effects

Tools and techniques for estimating and measuring coupling and component disturbance for avionics and electronic controls are described. A finite-difference-time-domain (FD-TD) modeling code, TSAR, used to predict coupling is described. This code can quickly generate a mesh model to represent the test object. Some applications as well as the advantages and limitations of using such a code are described. Facilities and techniques for making low-power coupling measurements and for making direct injection test measurements of device disturbance are also described. Some scaling laws for coupling and device effects are presented. A method for extrapolating these low-power test results to high-power full-system effects are presented     

Advances in critical technologies for hypersonic and high-enthalpy wind tunnel

Hypersonic and high-enthalpy wind tunnels and their measurement techniques are the cornerstone of the hypersonic flight era that is a dream for human beings to fly faster, higher and further. The great progress has been achieved during the recent years and their critical technologies are still in an urgent need for further development. There are at least four kinds of hypersonic and high-enthalpy wind tunnels that are widely applied over the world and can be classified according to their operation modes. These wind tunnels are named as air-directly-heated hypersonic wind tunnel, light-gas-heated shock tunnel, free-piston-driven shock tunnel and detonation-driven shock tunnel, respectively. The critical technologies for developing the wind tunnels are introduced in this paper, and their merits and weakness are discussed based on wind tunnel performance evaluation. Measurement techniques especially developed for high-enthalpy flows are a part of the hypersonic wind tunnel technology because the flow is a chemically reacting gas motion and its diagnosis needs specially designed instruments. Three kinds of the measurement techniques considered to be of primary importance are introduced here, including the heat flux sensor, the aerodynamic balance, and optical diagnosis techniques. The techniques are developed usually for conventional wind tunnels, but further improved for hypersonic and high-enthalpy tunnels. The hypersonic ground test facilities have provided us with most of valuable experimental data on high-enthalpy flows and will play a more important role in hypersonic research area in the future. Therefore, several prospects for developing hypersonic and high-enthalpy wind tunnels are presented from our point of view.     

Scientific ballooning services

The services available for scientific ballooning are described with special emphasis on the facilities of the NCAR Balloon Flight Station at Palestine, Texas. The preparations for a typical launching, the operations during the launch, the flight and the recovery are described for illustrative purposes. Considerations on the future development of scientific ballooning are given; technological problems for extended flights are considered to be less serious than the political problems.     

Fast Algorithms for Time Domain Broadband Adaptive Array Processing

Recursive algorithms are presented for time domain, broadband, adaptive beamforming. The algorithms are rapidly converging and can be computationally efficient for a certain range of array processor parameters. The algorithms are presented for two forms of array processor. One form is a Frost-type structure in which explicit constraints are required for defining the array-look direction and also to control the sensitivity of the array processor to implementation errors. The other form is a partitioned array processor in which constraints are built into the processor and the adaptive weight control algorithm is therefore unconstrained. The two processors presented are both element-space processors but the algorithms can be applied also to beam-space processors.     

航天飞控软件操作概图开发

航天飞控软件是具有高可靠性要求的软件系统,对其进行可靠性测试是航天飞控任务的基本要求。操作概图是进行软件可靠性测试的基础。由于开发大型软件系统的操作概图比较复杂,使其成为了制约开展软件可靠性测试的主要困难之一。本文以地面航天飞控软件为例,介绍了实时飞控软件操作概图的开发步骤和方法。首先是确定软件系统的操作模式,并确定每个操作模式所运行的相关软件;然后给出了识别每个软件的操作发起者和操作方法;最后对不同类型的操作给出了确定其发生概率的方法。     

Optimal and Suboptimal Control Synthesis for Minimum Time VTOL Transition

Optimal open-loop and suboptimal closed-loop controls for a VTOL aircraft in a minimum climb-to-cruise time transition are presented in this paper. The optimal open-loop controls are synthesized by a proposed gradient technique which provides for the selection of desired changes in physically meaningful parameters during each iteration step. The suboptimal closed-loop controls are synthesized as integral mean-square approximations to the optimal open-loop controls over the minimum time-to- climb interval. Piecewiseconstant feedback gains and switching times are synthesized for multidimensional control vectors which are linear combinations of observable states. Several computational results are presented for optimal and suboptimal minimum time controls with constrained and unconstrained terminal flight-path angles.     

Problems of complex safety of helicopter operation with regard for real expenditure of its service life

The methodical grounds for helicopter operation with respect to the technical condition for the state of the art of aeronautical engineering are analyzed and generalized. The most essential engineering solutions on developing the systems for monitoring the helicopter operating conditions are considered. The promising lines for further development of these systems are designated.     

Shock Tube Instrumentation Techniques for Study of Hypervelocity Entry Problems

Shock tube instrumentation techniques developed for the study of convective heat transfer and the radiative properties of high temperature gases at conditions simulating hypervelocity entry into planetary atmospheres are described. An electrically heated helium driven shock tube is used; measurement methods suitable for conventional shock tubes must be modified before they can be used in the hypervelocity shock tube. Extremely high shock velocities necessary for proper simulation are associated with very short test times imposing requirements for fast response instrumentation systems. Methods for evaluating test gas quality are illustrated. Techniques described have been applied to several studies; typical results are shown and instrumentation requirements for the extension of aerothermodynamic investigation in the hypervelocity regime are outlined.     

Power Conditioning Systems for High-Power, Airborne, Pulsed Applications

The power conditioning portion of the high-power study that was performed for the Air Force Aeropropulsion Laboratory by the State University of New York at Buffalo is summarized. This effort defines the power conditioning system and critical component developments which will be required to interface the airborne 10-MW to 50-MW sources defined under separate study efforts with certain loads. Power conditioning systems are considered for use with magnetohydrodynamic generators and turbine driven alternators, both conventional and superconducting. The critical components required for each of the power conditioning systems are identified and then analyzed. The component analyses include estimations of development efforts necessary and of specific weights and volumes for components. The primary components considered are transformers (for alternator as well as for inverter use), switches, capacitors, and inductors. Weight algorithms are developed for each of the components. Following the component analyses, subsystems such as inverters and rectifier and filter packages are considered. The data for the various components and subsystems are then utilized for a comparison of the power conditioning techniques to be used with the various power sources. The weights and volumes of power conditioning systems for 8-point designs (8 variations of power, voltage, duty cycle, and total run time) are derived.     

10 Gbit/s伪随机序列光纤通信系统PMD补偿

光纤通信线路检测到的电功率随差分群延迟变化,可作为PMD补偿的反馈控制信号。给出了这一变化关系的理论计算和曲线并通过实验验证这一关系,确定电压信号与DGD的变化关系。建立了一套完整的实验系统,并考虑了影响反馈电压信号的多种因素以及减小这些影响的措施。通过眼图给出的实验结果说明了补偿的效果,还通过误码测试仪测量了补偿前后的接收灵敏度的改变以定量说明补偿的效果,最后比较了不同情况下的补偿结果。     

高超声速飞行器非线性控制研究

针对高超声速飞行器非线性控制研究问题,介绍了在控制器设计中的特点及难点;阐述了在现有文献中关 于高超声速飞行器非线性控制相关研究工作,并分别从变结构控制方法、鲁棒自适应控制方法、结合智能控制方法 以及观测器在控制器设计中的应用等方面进行了分析;最后,结合高超声速飞行器自身特点,指出了高超声速飞行 器非线性控制领域的研究热点和发展趋势。     

Trends in research of hydrodynamic damping in rotor supports of gas turbine engines

The paper studies different types of dampers for rotor supports of gas turbine engines (GTE). The advantages of hydrodynamic dampers are shown. Hydrodynamic dampers for GTE rotor supports are studied. A new design and technique of calculation are proposed for an adjustable hydrodynamic damper.     

计算流体力学中的网格生成方法及其应用

讨论了多种网格生成方法及其流场的数值模拟。给出了一种生成现代双立尾战斗机外形的分区对接网格和Ｅｕｌｅｒ方程分区解。给出了一种带副翼偏转的三维机翼分区网格及绕流的Ｅｕｌｅｒ方程解。以二维多段翼型为对象分别讨论了分区重叠结构网格方法、非结构网格方法和自适应的笛卡尔网格法。     

涡轴发动机加速任务试车研究

针对某型涡轴发动机的加速任务试验方法进行了研究,提出了试验谱和步骤,对类似发动机的试验具有很强的借鉴、指导作用。     

Nonlinear aeroelastic analysis of airfoils: bifurcation and chaos

Different types of structural and aerodynamic nonlinearities commonly encountered in aeronautical engineering are discussed. The equations of motion of a two-dimensional airfoil oscillating in pitch and plunge are derived for a structural nonlinearity using subsonic aerodynamics theory. Three classical nonlinearities, namely, cubic, freeplay and hysteresis are investigated in some detail. The governing equations are reduced to a set of ordinary differential equations suitable for numerical simulations and analytical investigation of the system stability. The onset of Hopf-bifurcation, and amplitudes and frequencies of limit cycle oscillations are investigated, with examples given for a cubic hardening spring. For various geometries of the freeplay, bifurcations and chaos are discussed via the phase plane, Poincaré maps, and Lyapunov spectrum. The route to chaos is investigated from bifurcation diagrams, and for the freeplay nonlinearity it is shown that frequency doubling is the most commonly observed route. Examples of aerodynamic nonlinearities arising from transonic flow and dynamic stall are discussed, and special attention is paid to numerical simulation results for dynamic stall using a time-synthesized method for the unsteady aerodynamics. The assumption of uniform flow is usually not met in practice since perturbations in velocities are encountered in flight. Longitudinal atmospheric turbulence is introduced to show its effect on both the flutter boundary and the onset of Hopf-bifurcation for a cubic restoring force.     

某型飞机燃油系统数值建模方法与仿真分析

基于Flowmaster2软件建立了某型飞机燃油系统的整体仿真模型,并进行了瞬态和稳态分析。在瞬态分析中得到几个压力值较大的节点,在稳态分析中得到个别流速流量均出现较大幅值的元件,并且得到发动机入口流量完全符合设计要求。分析结果均可以对该整体系统较好的进行流体力学行为描述,同时为改进和优化设计燃油系统提供了新思路和方法。