Study on change of aircraft center of gravity during fuel consumption

Author

Miao, Yang ; Wang, Shaoping ; Zhao, Yongping

Author_Institution

Sch. of Autom. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Beijing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

25-27 July 2012

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

90

Abstract

In this paper, the law of change of aircraft center of gravity (CG) during fuel consumption is studied. The change of aircraft CG is discussed based on three different structures, such as single tank system, dual-symmetrical tank system and dual-asymmetrical tank system. Based on dual-symmetrical tank system, two fuel consumption modes are considered including the same consumption rate and different consumption rate on both tanks. The curves of change of aircraft CG on different conditions are obtained. The character and trend of change of CG is analyzed.

Keywords

aerospace engineering; aircraft; energy consumption; fuel; tanks (containers); aircraft CG change; aircraft center-of-gravity change; consumption rate; dual-asymmetrical tank system; dual-symmetrical tank system; fuel consumption; single tank system; Aerospace control; Aircraft; Fuel storage; Fuels; Gravity; Military aircraft; Periodic structures; change of CG; fuel consumption; fuel system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Informatics (INDIN), 2012 10th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0312-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INDIN.2012.6301236

Filename

6301236