Aproximación final y trayectoria de aterrizaje para un avión civil en pérdida total de empuje

Abstract

This document aims to describe a final approach and a landing trajectory generation method under the condition of total loss of thrust of the commercial transport aircraft to improve the flight safety. The thesis starts making an historical overview and treating some cases where we can study this phenomenon. With this historical approach, we want to investigate real situations of total loss of thrust and also we want to know the result of these cases in order to verify the safety aspect.

The body of this document consists in the description of a 2-dim two point boundary value problem being numerically solvable. In this part, we start with a theoretical approach that describes the situation with some equations. With this explanation, we will know how the situation is in a physical aspect. After this part, we focus on the implementation of a Matlab program using the previous equations described where we have make a simulation of some cases of total loss of thrust. The aim of this part is to deal with the landing previously described making a numerical approach. With this, we will be able to extract various conclusions about technical and safety aspects. The conclusion of this document is a revision of the theoretical and numerical results and their relation with some safety and technical aspects.