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Metocean Data
In offshore engineering, offshore and coastal engineering, metocean refers to the syllabic abbreviation of meteorology and physical oceanography, (physical) oceanography. Metocean study In various stages of an offshore or coastal engineering project a metocean study will be undertaken. This, in order to estimate the environmental conditions of direct influence on the choices to be made during the project phase at hand, and to arrive at an effective and efficient solution for the problems/goals stated. In later phases of a project, more detailed and thorough metocean studies may be needed, depending on whether there is an expected additional gain with respect to the successful and efficient completion of the project. Metocean conditions Metocean conditions refer to the combined wind, wind wave, wave and climate (etc.) conditions as found on a certain location. They are most often presented as statistics, including seasonal variations, contingency table, scatter tables, wind roses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waverider Deployment SHOM2007
A waverider is a hypersonic aircraft design that improves its supersonic lift-to-drag ratio by using the shock waves being generated by its own flight as a lifting surface, a phenomenon known as compression lift. The waverider remains a well-studied design for high-speed aircraft in the Mach 5 and higher hypersonic regime, although no such design has yet entered production. The Boeing X-51A scramjet demonstration aircraft was tested from 2010 to 2013. In its final test flight, it reached a speed of . History Early work The waverider design concept was first developed by Terence Nonweiler of the Queen's University of Belfast, and first described in print in 1951 as a re-entry vehicle. It consisted of a delta-wing platform with a low wing loading to provide considerable surface area to dump the heat of re-entry. At the time, Nonweiler was forced to use a greatly simplified 2D model of airflow around the aircraft, which he realized would not be accurate due to spanwise flow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
