Determination of Optimum Fin Planform and Airfoil Section for Minimizing Fin Hinge Moment

Determination of Optimum Fin Planform and Airfoil Section for Minimizing Fin Hinge Moment
Author: Frederick K. Goodwin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 87
Release: 1983
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ISBN:

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The second phase of an investigation of the hinge moments of all-movable controls as used on cruciform missiles is described. In the first phase, an attempt was made to develop a hinge-moment prediction method as general as possible for speeds ranging from subsonic to hypersonic. In that work, the method was successfully applied for Mach numbers ranging from 1.3 to 3.7. In the present phase of the investigation, the methods from phase one, with some modifications, have been used to develop a procedure for determining the optimum fin planform and airfoil section to minimize the fin hinge moment over a range of Mach numbers, angles of attack, and fin deflection angles. The Mach numbers range is restricted to supersonic. The transonic speed range cannot be handled since methods are not presently available for predicting the center-of-pressure shift due to thickness in this speed range. Experimental data are not available to assess the accuracy of the method at hypersonic speeds.

Control-Surface Hinge-Moment Calculations for a High-Aspect-Ratio Supercritical Wing

Control-Surface Hinge-Moment Calculations for a High-Aspect-Ratio Supercritical Wing
Author: National Aeronautics and Space Adm Nasa
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2018-09-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781720213932

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The hinge moments, at selected flight conditions, resulting from deflecting two trailing edge control surfaces (one inboard and one midspan) on a high aspect ratio, swept, fuel conservative wing with a supercritical airfoil are estimated. Hinge moment results obtained from procedures which employ a recently developed transonic analysis are given. In this procedure a three dimensional inviscid transonic aerodynamics computer program is combined with a two dimensional turbulent boundary layer program in order to obtain an interacted solution. These results indicate that trends of the estimated hinge moment as a function of deflection angle are similar to those from experimental hinge moment measurements made on wind tunnel models with swept supercritical wings tested at similar values of free stream Mach number and angle of attack. Perry, B., III Langley Research Center NASA-TM-78664, L-12219 RTOP 516-53-03-21

Rocket-powered-model Investigation of the Hinge-moment and Normal-force Characteristics of a Half-diamond Tip Control on a 60 Degree Sweptback Diamond Wind Between Mach Numbers of 0.5 and 1.3

Rocket-powered-model Investigation of the Hinge-moment and Normal-force Characteristics of a Half-diamond Tip Control on a 60 Degree Sweptback Diamond Wind Between Mach Numbers of 0.5 and 1.3
Author: James D. Church
Publisher:
Total Pages: 30
Release: 1954
Genre: Airplanes
ISBN:

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A free-flight investigation has been conducted to determine normal-force and hinge-moment characteristics of a half-diamond tip control on a diamond wing having 60 degree sweptback leading edges and 30 degree sweptforward trailing edges through a range of Mach number of 0.5 to 1.3. Results indicate that the control could be so hinged that very small hinge-moments due to control deflection would be obtained at low angles of attack over the speed range tested, although nonlinear variations of hinge moment with angle of attack were present in the transonic range.

Fundamentals of Flight

Fundamentals of Flight
Author: Richard Shepherd Shevell
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1989
Genre: Aerodynamics
ISBN: 9788177587425

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