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Criteria for Crosswind Variations during Approach and Touchdown at Airports

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Advances in Simulation of Wing and Nacelle Stall (FOR 1066 2014)

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Landing in adverse wind conditions in a majorairport can sometimes result in incidents, which in some cases can be attributed to the local infrastructure. The measurement of the representative wind near a runway and touchdown zone is discussed including the influence of the built environment on the wind conditions and how representative they are. Localised rapidly changing wind conditions, or building induced turbulence, will result in aircraft attitude changes (and occasionally with consequences like hard landings, pod strikes or go-arounds). The development of the original crosswind criterion and the extended criteria which limit the crosswind and headwind variations, are presented and their application to the built environment of airports is discussed.

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  1. Mott MacDonald Ltd, Sydenham Road 8-10, Croydon, CR0 2EE, UK

    Henk W. Krüs

  2. Cyclone Fluid Dynamics BV, Sweelincklaan 4, 5583 XM, Waalre, The Netherlands

    Henk W. Krüs

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  2. Institute of Jet Propulsion, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Neubiberg, Germany

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  3. Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Braunschweig, Germany

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Krüs, H.W. (2016). Criteria for Crosswind Variations during Approach and Touchdown at Airports. In: Radespiel, R., Niehuis, R., Kroll, N., Behrends, K. (eds) Advances in Simulation of Wing and Nacelle Stall. FOR 1066 2014. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, vol 131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21127-5_10

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