Print Email Facebook Twitter Aircraft Performance for Open Air Traffic Simulations Title Aircraft Performance for Open Air Traffic Simulations Author Metz, I.C. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) Hoekstra, J.M. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) Ellerbroek, Joost (TU Delft Control & Simulation) Kugler, D. (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)) Date 2016 Abstract The BlueSky Open Air Tra_c Simulator developed by the Control & Simulation section of TU Delft aims at supporting research for analysing Air Tra_c Management concepts by providing an open source simulation platform. The goal of this study was to complement BlueSky with aircraft performance models in order to enable performance- related Air Tra_c Management studies. The aircraft performance model developed within this work consists of a kinetic Flight Dynamics Model, which stores the required performance characteristics in a database with type-speci_c aircraft and engine coe_- cients. Currently, sixteen commercial turbofan and turboprop aircraft from di_erent range and weight categories are represented. To evaluate the quality of the aircraft per- formance model, its outputs were compared to results from literature as well as from real ights. It was found that the applied methodologies for the determination of air- craft performance accurately model high-speed drag polars as well as fuel consumption for cruising and taxiing aircraft. The fuel consumption model of climbing and descend- ing aircraft, however, leaves room for improvement. Possible strategies for obtaining a more precise estimation of fuel burn over the entire ight are recommended based on the results of this study. With this work, the BlueSky Open Air Tra_c Simulator considers individual aircraft performance. This is an important step in the creation of an open simulation platform for Air Tra_c Management research. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f03a645f-7f46-4a6a-80b3-6616336bf365 DOI https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2016-3522 Publisher American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA), Reston Embargo date 2017-01-31 ISBN 978-1-62410-387-2 Source AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference: San Diego, USA Event AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, 2016, 2016-01-04 → 2016-01-08, San Diego, United States Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2016 I.C. Metz, J.M. Hoekstra, Joost Ellerbroek, D. Kugler Files PDF Metz_AIAA_Aircraft_Perfor ... e_2016.pdf 3.06 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f03a645f-7f46-4a6a-80b3-6616336bf365/datastream/OBJ/view