Drop test simulation for a helicopter tail landing gear

The paper describes a mathematical model of drop tests on the landing gear of the Ka-62 helicopter. The model is formulated using the multibody system simulation procedure based on the Lagrange equations of the first kind.     

Magnetic Fields in Astrophysical Jets: From Launch to Termination

Long-lived, stable jets are observed in a wide variety of systems, from protostars, through Galactic compact objects to active galactic nuclei (AGN). Magnetic fields play a central role in launching, accelerating, and collimating the jets through various media. The termination of jets in molecular clouds or the interstellar medium deposits enormous amounts of mechanical energy and momentum, and their interactions with the external medium, as well, in many cases, as the radiation processes by which they are observed, are intimately connected with the magnetic fields they carry. This review focuses on the properties and structures of magnetic fields in long-lived jets, from their launch from rotating magnetized young stars, black holes, and their accretion discs, to termination and beyond. We compare the results of theory, numerical simulations, and observations of these diverse systems and address similarities and differences between relativistic and non-relativistic jets in protostellar versus AGN systems. On the observational side, we focus primarily on jets driven by AGN because of the strong observational constraints on their magnetic field properties, and we discuss the links between the physics of these jets on all scales.     

Experimental and theoretical investigations of vibration characteristics for GTE compressor blade

The tables of vibration modes for a blade obtained by the experimental method of holographic interferometry and systematized according to the number of nodal lines are presented. The graphical dependences of resonant frequencies that allow eliminating the vibration mode miss are presented. The vibration modes for a rectangular plate and a blade are compared. A technique of determining the resonant frequency for a missed harmonics is proposed.     

Passive Array Tracking of a Continuous Wave Transmitting Projectile

Differential Doppler measurements by a passive array are used to track an unstable continuous wave (CW) source moving in a ballistic trajectory, e.g., a projectile carrying a proximity fuse. The ballistic equations of motion couple frequency measurements at various sections along the track with the track parameters at any arbitrary time, e.g., at impact. A nonlinear weighted leastsquare method is used to estimate the track parameters, and the resulting error covariance matrix is derived. A numerical example demonstrates the relative contributions of various frequency measurements to the estimation accuracy.     

Atmospheric Escape and Evolution of Terrestrial Planets and Satellites

The origin and evolution of Venus’, Earth’s, Mars’ and Titan’s atmospheres are discussed from the time when the active young Sun arrived at the Zero-Age-Main-Sequence. We show that the high EUV flux of the young Sun, depending on the thermospheric composition, the amount of IR-coolers and the mass and size of the planet, could have been responsible that hydrostatic equilibrium was not always maintained and hydrodynamic flow and expansion of the upper atmosphere resulting in adiabatic cooling of the exobase temperature could develop. Furthermore, thermal and various nonthermal atmospheric escape processes influenced the evolution and isotope fractionation of the atmospheres and water inventories of the terrestrial planets and Saturn’s large satellite Titan efficiently.     

跨声速翼型绕流的Euler／边界层方程干扰数值解

本文利用Euler方程和可压缩湍流边界层积分方程研究绕跨声速翼型的有粘与无粘强干扰流动。应用有限差分法在贴体的网格上求解时间相关的Euler方程,以剪功积分方法求解翼面贴附和分离湍流边界层流动,并引入一个松弛方程描述剪应力对上游湍流历程的延迟响应。有粘/无粘干扰采用表面源模型。计算结果表明,对翼面存在强干扰流动情况,获得了与实验值基本吻合的结果。     

二元进气道非均匀超音来流试验研究

介绍一种二元进气道模型在非均匀超音来流中的初步研究结果。试验在DLR小型超音风洞上进行。为造成非均匀来流条件,试验中将部分或全部试验段顶壁附面层引入进气道模型。结果表明,进气斜板产生的头激波与来流附面层相互作用的性状在不同的附面层隔道下变化极大。随隔道高度增加,激波附面层相互作用距离L起初亦增加,当全部附面层被排移后,L大幅度下降。与均匀来流试验结果相比较,当来流顶壁附面层全部被进气道吞入时,该进气道总压恢复σ及质量流率m分别降低18％及15％(M_∞=2.19),同时出口面总压畸变大幅度增加。文章分析了原因及对进气道性能影响的强度。     

Cassini Radio Science

Cassini radio science investigations will be conducted both during the cruise (gravitational wave and conjunction experiments) and the Saturnian tour of the mission (atmospheric and ionospheric occultations, ring occultations, determinations of masses and gravity fields). New technologies in the construction of the instrument, which consists of a portion on-board the spacecraft and another portion on the ground, including the use of the Ka-band signal in addition to that of the S- and X-bands, open opportunities for important discoveries in each of the above scientific areas, due to increased accuracy, resolution, sensitivity, and dynamic range.This revised version was published online in July 2005 with a corrected cover date.