Re: [Flightgear-devel] Turbulence should affect YaSim and JSBSim the same way

2013-06-17 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:09:40 -0600, Jon wrote in message 
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> > ..my oversimplification: http://wiki.flightgear.org/YASim "guesses
> > how it flies from how it looks", while
> > http://wiki.flightgear.org/JSBSim "knows how it flies and tries to
> > show us how that looks", e.g. "stalls are assymetrical in YASim but
> > (still?) symmetrical in JSBSim."
> > 
> > ..if I guess FG progress correctly, we need to model downwash
> > correctly, and if you want assymetrical stalls in JSBSim, you need 2
> > halved JSBSim models per plane so each wing etc surface calculation
> > is run independently.
> 
> I have not tried modeling a piston aircraft in quite some time. [Hal
> Engel's P-51D does stall in either direction, does it not?]

..I haven't tried the P-51Ds much, but yeah, my stalls went both ways
on both FDMs AFAIR, but here I'm going on what I remember from when
YASim was introduced here, and whatever I've picked up on how they
differ, and on my WAG these things have changed since I last checked
the P51Ds 3 or 4 years back.  
My big problem was always too low framerates on T/O. ;o)

> In any case, it should be possible to model aerodynamic effects from
> the propeller in the XML model file for any JSBSim aircraft (in the
>  section) - effects that would affect stalling, I
> suspect. It's not that JSBSim doesn't support asymmetric stalls -
> JSBSim doesn't *not* support it.

..my (flawed?) understanding of JSBSim is "both wing halves sees the
same wind" because they are calculated together "as one wing", where
YASim cuts up the wing and calculates the wing sections independently
and adds them up together, AFAIRI from the discussion way back here.

> But, I'm not sure anyone has crafted the aerodynamic/propulsion
> interactions that would effect that. This isn't necessarily the fault
> of users, either. We (JSBSim development community) would ideally
> make available more examples and documentation.
> 
> JB


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Turbulence should affect YaSim and JSBSim the same way

2013-06-16 Thread Jon S. Berndt
> ..my oversimplification: http://wiki.flightgear.org/YASim "guesses how
> it flies from how it looks", while http://wiki.flightgear.org/JSBSim
> "knows how it flies and tries to show us how that looks", e.g. "stalls
> are assymetrical in YASim but (still?) symmetrical in JSBSim."
> 
> ..if I guess FG progress correctly, we need to model downwash
> correctly, and if you want assymetrical stalls in JSBSim, you need 2
> halved JSBSim models per plane so each wing etc surface calculation is
> run independently.

I have not tried modeling a piston aircraft in quite some time. [Hal Engel's
P-51D does stall in either direction, does it not?] In any case, it should
be possible to model aerodynamic effects from the propeller in the XML model
file for any JSBSim aircraft (in the  section) - effects that
would affect stalling, I suspect. It's not that JSBSim doesn't support
asymmetric stalls - JSBSim doesn't *not* support it. But, I'm not sure
anyone has crafted the aerodynamic/propulsion interactions that would effect
that. This isn't necessarily the fault of users, either. We (JSBSim
development community) would ideally make available more examples and
documentation.

JB



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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Turbulence should affect YaSim and JSBSim the same way

2013-06-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:03:21 +0300, Umut wrote in message 
:

> Hi,
> I have been looking over the FG code for sometime and would like to
> start contributing to the project. I just browsed through the open
> items and figured out "Turbulence should affect YaSim and JSBSim the
> same way" issue in 3.0 backlog. As the first step, I am trying grasp
> YaSim and JSBSim approaches.

..my oversimplification: http://wiki.flightgear.org/YASim "guesses how
it flies from how it looks", while http://wiki.flightgear.org/JSBSim 
"knows how it flies and tries to show us how that looks", e.g. "stalls 
are assymetrical in YASim but (still?) symmetrical in JSBSim."

..if I guess FG progress correctly, we need to model downwash correctly,
and if you want assymetrical stalls in JSBSim, you need 2 halved JSBSim
models per plane so each wing etc surface calculation is run independently.

> I just would like to ask if anybody else is working on this. And if
> not, can anyone help/guide me through drafting a solution. Regards,

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[Flightgear-devel] Turbulence should affect YaSim and JSBSim the same way

2013-06-16 Thread Umut Durak
Hi,
I have been looking over the FG code for sometime and would like to start
contributing to the project. I just browsed through the open items and
figured out "Turbulence should affect YaSim and JSBSim the same way" issue
in 3.0 backlog. As the first step, I am trying grasp YaSim and JSBSim
approaches. I just would like to ask if anybody else is working on this.
And if not, can anyone help/guide me through drafting a solution.
Regards,

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