@Article{SilveiraCarr:2015:SiDeFl,
author = "Silveira, Guilherme da and Carrara, Valdemir",
affiliation = "{Instituto de Aeron{\'a}utica e Espa{\c{c}}o (IAE)} and
{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
title = "A six degrees-of-freedom flight dynamics simulation tool of launch
vehicles",
journal = "Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management",
year = "2015",
volume = "7",
number = "2",
pages = "231--239",
month = "Apr.",
keywords = "Flight dynamics, Launch vehicles, Rockets, Simulation,
Trajectory.",
abstract = "The use of digital simulation has become an essential activity
during the development and operation of launch vehicles, due to
the complexity of such systems. Of particular interest is the
flight dynamics simulation, which investigates the behavior of the
vehicle in flight subjected to forces and moments. This work
presents a simulation tool suited to perform six
degrees-of-freedom flight dynamics investigations of launch
vehicles. Developed at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas
Espaciais (INPE) and the Instituto de Aeron{\'a}utica e
Espa{\c{c}}o (IAE) in Brazil, the tool was implemented following
the requirement for flexibility, so that it can be used to
simulate different types of launch vehicles. The assessment of the
vehicle performance and the vehicle payload capacity are some
examples of analysis that can be performed with the tool. A
modular programming strategy was employed to assure the tool
flexibility. Therefore, the models presented in the tool were
implemented as separate modules. The combination of these models
can originate flight models of different launch vehicles. Two
flight scenarios of Brazilian rockets were simulated and the
results were verified against simulation tools already employed by
aerospace community. The developed tool showed good agreement with
respect to the simulators used to perform the comparison.",
doi = "10.5028/jatm.v7i2.433",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.5028/jatm.v7i2.433",
issn = "1984-9648",
language = "en",
targetfile = "Silveira_six.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "14 jun. 2024"
}