Pitching Angle on Space Capsule Water Landing Using Smooth Particle Hydrodynamic Method

Lu, Zhaoyan; Xiao, Tianhang; Li, Zhengzhou; Zhang, Zhenming; Du, Sichun; Wang, Zhengzhong

doi:10.2514/1.a33760

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“…Various numerical results in the field of aircraft calm water-landing/ditching have been published through Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method [13][14][15][16][17], the messless Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method [15][16][17][18][19][20] and Finite Volume Method (FVM) [4,[21][22][23][24]. Early studies were mainly focused on the feasibility of the ALE and SPH approaches.…”

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“…[15][16][17] is that the ALE technique is an efficient formulation for both vertical impact and landing simulations, but difficult to accurately capture airwater-structure interface, the SPH method provides accurate results of ditching simulation due to free mesh strategy and high-resolution water spray but may suffers from huge computational cost. Recently, Xiao et al [18] developed an in-house SPH code and successfully applied it to predict calm water ditching process of capsule [19] and helicopter [20]. The influences of the initial pitch angle on overload, kinematic dynamics and pressure distribution were detailed.…”

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Numerical Study of Wave Effect on Aircraft Water-Landing Performance

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Aircraft, such as amphibious planes, airliners, helicopters and re-entry capsules, are frequently subject to impacting loads from water-landing/ditching on various free surfaces, especially under wave conditions. Understanding and quantifying the water-landing/ditching performance on wave surfaces are of fundamental important for the design and certification of crashworthiness in the field of aerospace engineering. This study aims to numerically assess the effect of wave surface on water-landing process of an amphibious aircraft. The numerical implementation is realized in Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) framework by combining finite volume method (FVM), volume of fluid (VOF) approach and velocity-inlet wavemaker. The temporal-spatial characteristic of numerical wave and the accuracy of presented model are, respectively, validated by analytical wave and convergence studies. The aircraft landing simulations with different free surface conditions, i.e., calm water, regular wave with different wave heights are then performed and quantitatively compared through several physical parameters, including acceleration, velocity, pressure, pitch angle and free surface deformation. It was found that the aircraft regular wave-landing process experiences several unique stages comparing with the calm-water-landing case. The results clearly confirm that wave surface can influence the aircraft landing performance to a great extent. The fundamental mechanism is found to be that the wave surface slope and wave particle velocity remarkably change the impacting position and effective impacting velocity of the aircraft.

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