Wind Shear Model
Calculate wind shear conditions
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Aerospace Blockset / Environment / Wind
Description
The Wind Shear Model block adds wind shear to the aerospace model. This implementation is based on the mathematical representation in the Military Specification MIL-F-8785C [1].
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The magnitude of the wind shear is given by the following equation for the mean wind profile as a function of altitude and the measured wind speed at 20 feet (6 m) above the ground.
where uw is the mean wind speed, W20 is the measured wind speed at an altitude of 20 feet, h is the altitude, and z0 is a constant equal to 0.15 feet for Category C flight phases and 2.0 feet for all other flight phases. Category C flight phases are defined in reference [1] to be terminal flight phases, which include takeoff, approach, and landing.
The resultant mean wind speed in the flat Earth axis frame is changed to body-fixed axis coordinates by multiplying by the direction cosine matrix (DCM) input to the block. The block output is the mean wind speed in the body-fixed axis.
References
[1] U.S. Military Specification MIL-F-8785C, November 5, 1980.
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See Also
Discrete Wind Gust Model | Dryden Wind Turbulence Model (Continuous) | Dryden Wind Turbulence Model (Discrete) | Von Karman Wind Turbulence Model (Continuous)