Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2015
Abstract
Knowledge of standard air temperature, pressure, density, speed of sound, and viscosity as a function of altitude is essential information in aircraft design, performance testing, pressure altimeter calibration, and several other aeronautical engineering and aviation science applications. A new efficient computational method for rapid calculations of standard atmospheric parameters up to 86 orthometric km is presented. Additionally, mass and weight of each standard atmospheric layer were calculated using a numerical integration method. The sum of all fractional masses and weights represents the total mass and weight of Earth’s atmosphere. The results obtained here agree well with measurements and models of the real atmosphere. Various ISA scale heights were estimated from numerical integration of atmospheric masses and weights. The nature of the geopotential and the orthometric heights and the definition of MSL have been explained. Essential thermodynamic considerations of still and dry air were highlighted. In addition to general working equations for air pressure and density vertical distribution for each atmospheric layer an extensive table of calculated values up to 86 km has been provided in appendix. Several models of air viscosity were also compared. It was found that simple Granger’s model agrees well with the widely accepted Sutherland-type viscosity equation. All computations were performed with the fourteen significant-digits accuracy although only seven significant digits were typically presented in tables.
Department
Aviation
Online ISSN
2374-6793
Publication Title
International Journal of Aviation Aeronautics and Aerospace
Recommended Citation
Daidzic, N. E. (2015). Efficient general computational method for estimation of standard atmosphere parameters. International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.15394/ijaaa.2015.1053
DOI
10.15394/ijaaa.2015.1053
Link to Publisher Version (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.15394/ijaaa.2015.1053
Publisher's Copyright and Source
Copyright © 2015 Scholarly Commons.
Originally published by Scholarly Commons in 2015 in International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.15394/ijaaa.2015.1053
