Development and Flight Test of In Situ Turbulence Algorithms

This viewgraph presentation provides an overview of the development and testing of in situ turbulence algorithms developed by AeroTech Research. These efforts were made in support of the development of a turbulence radar detection system designed to improve aircraft safety. Issues considered in the algorithm development included 3-D wind models and turbulence recovery, atmospheric/meteorological diagnostics, distributed load analysis and hazard metrics for radar. The code designed from these algorithms were flights tested aboard a NASA B-757 aircraft. Data analysis from these flight tests are presented.