Artificial airstream influencing dynamics of the UAV capture by an arresting gear
Authors: Shcheglov G.A., Vasilev F.An.
Published in issue: #1(157)/2025
DOI: 10.18698/2308-6033-2025-1-2416
Category: Aviation and Rocket-Space Engineering | Chapter: Design, Construction, Production, Testing, and Operation of Aircraft
The paper presents results of numerical simulation of the UAV short landing using its capture in the air by an arresting gear device. It studies the influence of the artificially created jets on the device capture dynamics. The paper assesses the force jet impact in the SolidWorks Flow Simulation software package; the obtained results are used in the MSC Adams program for numerical simulation of the UAV capture dynamics parameters. The paper considers computed cases characterized by different orientation of the jets, different number of jets, different source diameters and different levels of the jet force impact. It shows that the impact of one or more UAV jets could impose both negative and positive effect on the UAV capture dynamics by the landing device due to significant dependence of the results on direction, impact duration and strength of the jets. The maximum load reduction during capture achieved as a result of the study about 16%.
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