Aerodynamic characteristics of an aircraft's ejection seat system: a review
摘要
The ejection seat system is a piece of crucial military aircraft equipment that saves a pilot's life in emergencies. Developments in the aerospace industries and new generations of fighter aircraft continuously demand improved ejection seat systems. An enormous number of studies were done to enhance the design concept of the ejection seat and reduce the aerodynamic instability of the pilot's body. The experimental and numerical analyses were performed to determine the effects of aerodynamic forces responsible for the pilot's injuries. Due to time limitations, cost-effectiveness, and experimental constraints, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis has been extensively performed in the past thirty years. A detailed review has been done on the experimental and computational approaches used for analyzing the aerodynamic coefficients of ejection seat systems using the available literature published till now. All the methods used by different researchers to study the aerodynamic coefficients of an ejection seat system have been discussed.