Stability and control module for Joint Army/Navy Rotocraft Analysis and Design (JANRAD) software and Graphical User Interface (GUI)
By: by David A. Heathorn
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Description: The Joint Army/Navy Rotorcraft Analysis and Design (JANRAD) computer program has been developed at the Naval Postgraduate School to aid in the preliminary design of rotorcraft and has been updated to include a Graphical User Interface (Gul). This thesis is a continuation of the program focusing on stability and control analysis. The trim solution for a specified flight condition is computed from the Performance module of the program. This trim solution is then used to compute stability derivatives for the specified flight condition and a linear state space model is created. This solution can then be used to perform various time and frequency domain analyses or can be saved to a file for future use.
Notes: Thesis advisor(s):, E. Roberts Wood, Robert E. King.

"March 1999".

Thesis (M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering) Naval Postgraduate School, March 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249).

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