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This homework assignment involves implementing a full 6 degree-of-freedom aircraft dynamic model and simulating aircraft motion using numerical integration methods. Students are asked to: 1. Briefly explain and compare the Euler Method and Runge-Kutta 4th Order Method mathematically. 2. Use the Euler Method to simulate a user-defined flight plan involving maneuvers like climbs, cruise, turns, descents, and loitering for an aircraft. Present simulation results as graphs and specify total fuel consumption. The document provides the 6DOF aircraft dynamic model equations, submission instructions, and outlines two problems - comparing integration methods and simulating a flight plan using Euler integration. Students must comment code, include plots

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Homework 3

This homework assignment involves implementing a full 6 degree-of-freedom aircraft dynamic model and simulating aircraft motion using numerical integration methods. Students are asked to: 1. Briefly explain and compare the Euler Method and Runge-Kutta 4th Order Method mathematically. 2. Use the Euler Method to simulate a user-defined flight plan involving maneuvers like climbs, cruise, turns, descents, and loitering for an aircraft. Present simulation results as graphs and specify total fuel consumption. The document provides the 6DOF aircraft dynamic model equations, submission instructions, and outlines two problems - comparing integration methods and simulating a flight plan using Euler integration. Students must comment code, include plots

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Flight Mechanics: Homework 3

Asst. Prof. Barış Başpınar


May 17, 2021
Due date: May 30, 2021

Policy
You should write your own answer/code by yourself. Cheating is highly discouraged for it could mean a
zero or negative grade from the homework. If a question is not clear, please let us know via email.

Submission Instructions
Please submit your homework through the Ninova website. Please zip and upload all your files using
filename studentID.rar. You must provide all functions you wrote with your zipped file. Functions you
do not submit will cause you to lose a portion of your grade. Please make sure that you comment on
your code. Make also sure that the plots you produce are readable and they have labels and legends.
You MUST include the report.pdf file with your homework. Include there:
1. answers to the questions,
2. outputs for each question,
3. how to call your functions for each question.

Problems
In this homework, you are expected to implement full aircraft motion including aerodynamic, propulsive
and fuel consumption models. The aircraft dynamic model is given by the set of equations below:

x˙1 = x4 cos(x5 ) cos(u3 ) (1)


x˙2 = x4 sin(x5 ) cos(u3 ) (2)
x˙3 = x4 sin(u3 ) (3)
CD Sρx24 u1
x˙4 = − − g sin(u3 ) + (4)
2x6 x6
CL Sρx4
x˙5 = − sin(u2 ) (5)
2x6
x˙6 = −f (6)

The model is a dynamical system with three control inputs and six state variables. The state variables
of the aircraft are the horizontal position (x1 and x2 ), altitude (x3 ), the true airspeed (x4 ), the heading
angle (x5 ) and the mass of the aircraft (x6 ). The control inputs of the aircraft are the engine thrust
(u1 ), the bank angle (u2 ) and the flight path angle (u3 ). In the equation set above, aerodynamic lift and
drag coefficients are represented by CL and CD , total wing surface area is S, air density is represented
as ρ and the fuel consumption is represented as f .

Problem 1
Give a short brief of Euler Method and Runge-Kutta 4th Order Method. What is the difference between
them? Show through mathematical equations

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Problem 2
Using Euler Method, simulate aircraft motion for the aircraft defined in aircraft.OPF for the flight plan
specified by you. Your flight plan must contain all of the following maneuvers:
• Climb from h1 ft to h2 ft with α flight path angle.

• Perform cruise flight for t minutes.


• Turn with β ◦ bank angle until heading is changed by η ◦ .
• Descent from h2 ft to h1 ft with ζ ◦ flight path angle.
• Complete a 360◦ turn (loiter) at level flight.

• Descent to h3 ft with κ◦ flight path angle.


Present simulation results as listed below.
• 3D position graph

• VT AS − T ime graph
• Vvertical − T ime graph
• Heading − T ime graph
• M ass − T ime graph

• T hrust − T ime graph


• BankAngle − T ime graph
• F lightP athAngle − T ime graph
• And also specify the total fuel consumption during mission

Note: Initial conditions must be specified at the beginning of the simulation. Nominal speed schedule
in Airline procedure model must be used as the initial condition for VT AS .

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