On the scaling of air launch vehicles
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a set of scaling laws for the preliminary design of air launch vehicles. Scaling laws have been successfully used for the early stages of preliminary design of aerospace vehicles. A set of scaling laws for the preliminary design of air launch vehicle are...
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| author | Kafafy, Raed Idres, Moumen Aldheeb, M. Omar, H. |
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| description | The purpose of this paper is to introduce a set of
scaling laws for the preliminary design of air launch
vehicles. Scaling laws have been successfully used for
the early stages of preliminary design of aerospace
vehicles. A set of scaling laws for the preliminary design of air launch vehicle are derived from first principles. The
scaling laws are then compared against a pseudodetailed air launch vehicle design model. The trends of vehicle design and performance parameters with payload mass reduction are investigated. In the paper, scaling laws of air launch vehicles based on first principles are introduced for the first time in the aerospace literature to the authors’ knowledge. |
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| spelling | iium-90682012-02-02T08:03:15Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/9068/ On the scaling of air launch vehicles Kafafy, Raed Idres, Moumen Aldheeb, M. Omar, H. TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery The purpose of this paper is to introduce a set of scaling laws for the preliminary design of air launch vehicles. Scaling laws have been successfully used for the early stages of preliminary design of aerospace vehicles. A set of scaling laws for the preliminary design of air launch vehicle are derived from first principles. The scaling laws are then compared against a pseudodetailed air launch vehicle design model. The trends of vehicle design and performance parameters with payload mass reduction are investigated. In the paper, scaling laws of air launch vehicles based on first principles are introduced for the first time in the aerospace literature to the authors’ knowledge. 2011 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/9068/1/ICMAAE-11-163.pdf Kafafy, Raed and Idres, Moumen and Aldheeb, M. and Omar, H. (2011) On the scaling of air launch vehicles. In: International Conference on Mechanical, Automotive and Aerospace Engineering (ICMAAE' 11), 17-19 May, 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Unpublished) |
| spellingShingle | TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Kafafy, Raed Idres, Moumen Aldheeb, M. Omar, H. On the scaling of air launch vehicles |
| title | On the scaling of air launch vehicles |
| title_full | On the scaling of air launch vehicles |
| title_fullStr | On the scaling of air launch vehicles |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the scaling of air launch vehicles |
| title_short | On the scaling of air launch vehicles |
| title_sort | on the scaling of air launch vehicles |
| topic | TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/9068/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/9068/1/ICMAAE-11-163.pdf |