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Title:

Optimal Acceleration Procedure from Launch to Maximum Speed in High-Speed Dynamic Soaring

Document type:
Konferenzbeitrag
Author(s):
Sachs, Gottfried; Grüter, Benedikt
Abstract:
Dynamic soaring is a flight mode for achieving extremely high speeds in wind scenarios in the leeward side of ridges where a thin shear layer separates a region of high wind speed above from a zone of still air below. The maximum speed achievable with a glider differs by an order of magnitude from the speed after launching the vehicle. Thus, a significant acceleration effort is necessary in order to increase the speed form the low-speed level after launch to approach the maximum speed. Flight me...     »
Book / Congress title:
AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum
Year:
2020
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.2514/6.2020-0024
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