The problem with aviation COTS

Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) has become a byword for acquisition reform, but there are significant risks associated with the use of COTS products in military systems. These risks are especially acute for aviation systems. This paper explains how COTS can negatively affect military acquisitions and gives ideas on how to plan and resolve COTS caused problems     

Analysis of single-platform passive emitter location with terraindata

Frequency measurements made at a moving platform can be used to locate an emitter. An error ellipsoid analysis is used to compare the performance under three levels of a priori information on the emitter's altitude: (1) no knowledge, (2) terrain data, and (3) complete knowledge of the emitter's altitude. The analysis is performed for two simple platform paths that provide frequency measurements that are approximately time reversed versions of one another. When no a priori knowledge is available there is little difference between the performance when the platform maneuvers on a concave circular path or on a convex circular path and the performance depends very Little on the platform altitude. However, when some a priori altitude information is available the performance is markedly different on the two paths and is highly dependent on the platform altitude. Thus, this analysis provides the unexpected result that for seemingly similar platform paths, the performance can vary markedly when the emitter altitude is assumed known. Also, an interesting result is that for some cases it is possible to achieve better x-y accuracy when using terrain data than when the emitter's z location is known, because the terrain data provides terrain slope information. These cases are characterized in terms of the terrain slope at the emitter     

SRM 纤维缠绕壳体的蒙特卡罗随机有限元分析

采用蒙特卡罗随机有限元方法，结合复合材料壳体力学、纤维缠绕理论等知识，分析了固体火箭发动机纤维缠绕壳体在燃气内压随机变化作用下的应力响应，绘出应力分布曲线，为固体火箭发动机结构可靠性评估奠定基础。     

空载固体发动机计算与试验模态相关性分析

为了预测空载状态固体火箭发动机动态特性,对其进行了模态试验,并应用MSC.Marc进行了模态计算,然后对比两者的结果,进行了相关性分析和评估。计算得到了发动机250Hz以内的一阶弯曲模态和五阶呼吸模态。试验测得了发动机的三阶呼吸模态和一阶弯曲模态。比较试验测试模态和与之对应的计算模态:固有频率相对误差均在5%以内;振型相关图上的点大都分布在斜率为1(或 1)的直线周围;MAC(模态置信判据)值在0 9左右。说明计算与试验模态有较好的相关性,有限元计算模型比较准确的反映了实际情况。     

金属水反应水冲压发动机系统性能估算

使用金属／水反应燃料是推进水下超高速航行器的最佳途径，分析了单次注水和二次注水的铝／水反应燃料水冲压发动机系统，得出了燃料质量配比、燃烧室温度、燃烧室压强、系统有效推力、效率等关键技术性能指标。指出了二次注水系统的优越性并提出了一种二次注水系统的实施方案。分析结论与实际系统性能指标相吻合，证明了分析的正确性，可以为系统研究提供参考。     

一次火箭参数对RBCC引射模态性能的影响

应用经过校验的三维湍流有限体积数值算法，对引射模态下RBCC模型不同一次引射火箭结构和工作参数条件下的多种工作状态进行了模拟。结果发现：提高一次火箭燃烧室工作压强，二次流量增加，系统推力增加，混合效果增强；一次火箭喷管形状直接影响引射掺混效果，但在保证足够一次流量的前提下，方形管道中可以使用锥形一次喷管，不会带来性能上的较大差异；一次火箭喷管数目增加，掺混质量提高；一次喷管扩张半角的改变不会影响二次引入流量，但会影响掺混效果和一次火箭自身推力；一次喷管面积膨胀比的变化，不会影响二次引入流量．但会改变混合效果。     

涡轮叶片表面气膜冷却效率的实验研究

采用放大的叶片模型，利用大尺寸低速线性叶栅风洞进行实验，测量了涡轮导向叶片表面不同位置单排气膜孔的气膜冷却效率，研究了孔排位置、吹风比及来流雷诺数的影响。风洞实验段由3个叶片组成，其中中间的叶片为试验叶片，由优质木材制成。试验叶片表面上开有15排气膜孔，其中吸力面3排，前缘区6排，压力面6排。实验的参数变化范围是：基于叶片弦长的来流雷诺数250000-450000，吹风比0．5-2．5。结果表明，由于气膜孔排位置的不同，其下游冷却效率受来流雷诺数及吹风比影响的变化趋势也有所不同。     

Langmuir Turbulence and Solar Radio Bursts

Langmuir waves and turbulence resulting from an electron beam-plasma instability play a fundamental role in the generation of solar radio bursts. We report recent theoretical advances in nonlinear dynamics of Langmuir waves. First, starting from the generalized Zakharov equations, we study the parametric excitation of solar radio bursts at the fundamental plasma frequency driven by a pair of oppositely propagating Langmuir waves with different wave amplitudes. Next, we briefly discuss the emergence of chaos in the Zakharov equations. We point out that chaos can lead to turbulence in the source regions of solar radio emissions. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

六喷管超音速引射器性能的理论分析和实验研究

对某一定尺寸的六喷管超音速引射器进行气动性能的实验研究。结果表明：随着主次流压比Ｐ＊ｐ／Ｐ＊ｓ增加，引射系数及修正引射系数下降；当引射系数增加时，混合管动量修正系数Ｋｍ下降，但主喷管流量系数μ变化不大。对上述工况进行理论计算的结果与实验数据符合良好。     

Radial and meridional trends in solar wind thermal electron temperature and anisotropy: Ulysses

Ulysses plasma measurement from 1.15 to 5.31 AU and from S6.4° to S48.3° solar latitude are used to assess the trends in the solar wind thermal electron temperature and anisotropy. Improved spacecraft potential corrections and data products have been incorporated. The radial temperature gradient is steeper than in previous determinations, but flatter than adiabatic. When normalized to 1 AU, temperature decrease with increasing latitude. Little change in the average thermal anisotropy has been seen during the mission.