Split canard design for enhancing the maneuverability of a missile at high angles of attack

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Çetiner, Abdullah Emre

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In this thesis, the effects of split canard on the aerodynamic characteristics of missiles at high angles of attack are numerically investigated. Moreover, an enhanced semi-empirical engineering-level method is developed for prediction of normal force and pitching moment of split canard mounted missiles. In order to analyze the effects of split canard, a generic test case model is created by mounting a split canard to a generic test case model, NASA Dual Control Missile (NDCM), which was previously modeled and analyzed for the validation of CFD modeling. After obtaining a generic missile model with split canard, the effects of split canard on the aerodynamic characteristics of this missile in case of no control, pitch control, yaw control, and roll control deflections are numerically investigated. It is seen that the split canard decreases the local angle of attack of existing canard, increases the normal force and the maneuverability of the missile, and reduces the induced rolling moment at high angles of attack. Five different aerodynamic design parameters are determined for split canard and the effects of each parameter on missile aerodynamics are numerically investigated. It is seen that the roll orientation, deflection angle, size of the split canards have strong effects on missile’s aerodynamic performance whereas longitudinal position of the split canards only affects the pitching moment of the missile. Finally, an enhanced semi-empirical engineering-level method, CFD-CBU, is developed for split canard mounted missiles in order to predict the normal force and the pitching moment coefficients. The developed method is validated with NDCM test case model. After this validation, the method is applied to the split canard mounted generic missile in case of no control deflection and pitch control deflection. The results of this method are compared with CFD results and it is seen that the results are in good agreement with each other.

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Rockets (Aeronautics), Guided missiles., Computational fluid dynamics., Fluid dynamics.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614920/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21808

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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A. E. Çetiner, “Split canard design for enhancing the maneuverability of a missile at high angles of attack,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.