Airborne Collision Severity Evaluation - Engine Ingestion

The research goal for this project is to better understand the interaction of a fan and UAV during an ingestion scenario. The objectives of this research are to: (i) create a generic high bypass ratio fan model that has features that are representative of a fan in a modern engine typically found on a large commercial transport; (ii) develop a component and full scale validated model of a quadcopter UAV (initially validated critical components in the first phase of the airborne collision research at different conditions) at the conditions of the ingestion event; and (iii) simulate various ingestion events to understand the sensitivity of a collision to various parameters of the ingestion.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract to a Performing Organization has not yet been awarded.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Start Date: 20180830
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation crashes; Aircraft; Crash severity; Drones; Fans; Jet engines; Simulation
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01682810
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE)
• Files: RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 8 2018 1:53PM