Transient Analysis Methods for Determining the Longitudinal Stability Derivatives of a Submerged Body from Free Flight Tests

Author: Geisberg, Ralph Lewis

Year: 1950

Degree: Engineer's thesis

Advisor: Williams, Max L.

Committee Members: Williams, Max L.; Housner, George W.; Stewart, Homer Joseph

Option: Aeronautics

DOI: 10.7907/H9NV-2777

Abstract

The stability derivatives obtainable from dynamic free flight tests are determined. Methods for reducing flight test data to the form of stability derivatives using the Fourier integral and the Laplace transform are developed.

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