modelDrydenContinuousTurbulence

Information

This example shows how to use the BandLimitedWhiteNoise to feed a Dryden continuous turbulence model. This model is used to describe turbulent wind at low altitudes that varies randomly in space (see also wikipedia).

Turbulence model for vertical gust speed at low altitudes

The turbulence model of the Dryden form is defined by the power spectral density of the vertical turbulent velocity:

The spectrum is parametrized with the following parameters:

• Lw is the turbulence scale.
  In low altitudes, it is equal to the flight altitude.
• sigma is the turbulence intensity.
  In low altitudes, it is equal to 1/10 of the wind speed at 20 ft altitude, which is 30 kts for medium turbulence.
• Omega is the spatial frequency.
  The turbulence model is thus defined in space and the aircraft experiences turbulence as it flies through the defined wind field.
• Omega = s/V will be used to transform the spatial definition into a temporal definition, which can be realized as a state space system.
• V is the airspeed of the aircraft.
  It is approximately 150 kts during the approach (i.e. at low altitudes).

Using spectral factorization and a fixed airspeed V of the aircraft, a concrete forming filter for the vertical turbulence can be found as

,

for which V * (H_w(i Omega/V) * H_w(-i Omega/V) = Phi_w(Omega).

The input to the filter

The input to the filter is white noise with a normal distribution, zero mean, and a power spectral density of 1. That means, for a sampling time of 1s, it is parameterized with mean=0 and variance=1. However, in order to account for the change of noise power due to sampling, the noise must be scaled with sqrt(samplePeriod). This is done automatically in the BandLimitedWhiteNoise block.

Example output

Reference

1. Dryden Wind Turbulence model in US military standard MIL-F-8785.

Parameters

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