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Kenneth
J. Plotkin
Armstrong
A Page
Wyle Laboratories
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USAF
SONIC
BOOM
PREDICTION
PCBoom3
has developed
PCBoom3,
a general-purpose, under
single-event DOS
sonic boom
prediction via an
operates which
It is accessed displaying
running
is via a variation
aircraft.
identifying and to be
beginning
of footprint,
amplitude
or spectra planning
incident program
being especially
design, activity
community,
route
conducted
capabilities amplitudes,
results
of that program
geometry,
[This
work
was sponsored
by USAF
AL/OEBN.]
was developed
to satisfy assessments
needs.
sonic
The second
areas
An example
of this type of planning for how far out the range incident
is to quantify needs
does happen easy to use, runs quickly, and that output be available and in
on a PC.
format.
AIR
FORCE
REQUIREMENTS
Sonic
Boom
Impact
Prediction
Sonic
Boom
Incident
Investigation
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The program
has several
methods Second,
trajectories.
First,
there
similar
to that of FOBOOM/MDBOOM. description with virtually information radar of a maneuver. any description
is a general
"Maneuver
Driver"
interactive
This is aimed
at the planner
or airspace
manager
of a maneuver. Third,
can import
tracking, benign
trajectories.
relatively
a conversion
specification. The program similitude and claim uses standard sonic boom focus ray tracing signature. theory, and includes focus analysis via Guiraud's planning
numeric
for environmental
that it employ
are contours
charts
which
provide
interpretation
and signatures
and spectra.
GENERAL
FEATURES
Flight Tracing
Profile
Input
Post-Focus Contours,
Boom Footprints
(Isopemps),
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The user works up the data stream module putting other is ready,
primarily
menu
system.
is to set
needed MIM
that actually
a computational MIM, on
writes
in the menus.
to replicate
systems.
Manages Sets Up
All Runs
Data, Stream
User for
Inputs,
Via
Simple
Menu Modules
System
Computational Modules
Initiates PC-Specific
Computational Interface
as Separate
Processes
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is done
in the computational
modules.
These
are written
in Fortran plotting
Graphics
are done with a PC-specific ManD, PCBPIot, and SIGOUT parts. the full-theory on the rapid
library
/i i _
"industry these
call styles.
interactive
FOBoom3
module
very
SBORT
algorithms.
signatures
on the ground.
by a "footprint
processor"
which
organizes
and SIGOUT. is derived from the same code configuration the corresponding analysis from which tools, but those MDBOOM as possible have
module
the proprietary
modules. routines
to adapt between
to their work.
As many
will be of long-term
benefit
to maintenance
COMPUTATIONAL
MODULES
in Fortran Standard"
i _
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module
will draw
isopemps
and contours.
at specific geometry.
the boom
amplitude.
Loudness
by the methods
used by NASA-Langley,
time constant.
PCBCont
CONTOUR/FOOTPRINT
MODULE
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turn at constant
Mach
number.
There
the
The caustic
turn is apparent,
TYPICAL
FOOTPRINT
("ISOPEMP")
OUTPUT
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/ex_
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TYPICAL
/ /
CONTOUR
OUTPUT
/ / /
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level
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output
module
allows between
plotting
signatures computed
and spectra
at an arbitrary It is aware
location
in the sheets
signatures
the actual
of multiple
complex spectra.
signatures
Spectra by the
The one-third
are normalized
auditory
SIGOUT
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SIGNATURE/SPECTRUM
MODULE
!<ili'i _i '
Plots
Time
History "N-U"
Complex Spectra
and
Residual
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signature
output.
This particular
focus feet.
under pressure
the is
maximum-power
level acceleration
{a]cu]ated
Focus
Signature
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Focalzoneflight testswererecentlyconducted.An arrayof BEARS with 500-to 1,000-foot spacingwas placedacrosscalculated focalzones.Observers werealsolocatedalongthe arrays,andthe audiblesensations f "distantthunder"on the shadowside,"BANG-BANG" at thefocus,and"carpet o boomwith afterpops"filled expectations. herewere49 passes T overthe arrays,with a good mix of maneuverypes. Except for a very few anomalous t runsthat missed altogether,all of the foci intercepted the expectedlocations. The behaviorawayfromthe focalzoneitself- with N andU wavesseparating agreedwell with predictions. Boomamplitudes alsoagreed with predictions.
FLIGHT
TEST Have
VALIDATION: BEARS
Project
USAF F-16
AL/OEBN Performing
effort,
April
1994,
Edwards Acceleration,
Diving
Recorded Results
of USAF Location,
for Focal
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measured
boom signature
condition.
acceleration, is are is
earlier.
The peak
agreement
differs
of the Gill-Seebass
to be examined,
the recorded
provides
for a detailed
comparison
of theory
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points
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100.
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250.
300.
350.
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CONCLUSIONS
by Recent With
Flight MDBOOM
Expected AL/OEBN
Release
in Fall
1994.
Will
be Available
From
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