{"id":107111,"date":"2021-03-17T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=107111"},"modified":"2021-03-18T00:30:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T00:30:34","slug":"nasa-develops-technology-to-detect-turbulence-from-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2021\/03\/nasa-develops-technology-to-detect-turbulence-from-miles-away.html","title":{"rendered":"NASA develops technology to detect turbulence from miles away."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Whether it\u2019s in the wake vortex of airplanes taking off or in seemingly calm air, there are few issues more meddlesome to flight than turbulence. Not only can these \u201chorizontal tornadoes\u201d make air travel uncomfortable and possibly dangerous, but attempts to avoid them can consume large amounts of fuel. Researchers at NASA have developed technology to find these zones, and with some engineering ingenuity, they could revolutionize both flight planning and aeronautical research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also: <\/em><\/strong>Airbus analyzing the launch of cargo version the A350.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything in the atmosphere can make a sound. Volcanoes rumble, waterfalls crash, and air rushes, but there\u2019s more to that sound than what our ears perceive. Much like how infrared light consists of frequencies that aren\u2019t visible to the naked eye, there\u2019s an audio analogue called infrasound. Infrasound consists of pitches too low to be heard by the human ear, between 0.001 and 20 hertz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also:<\/strong> FAA monitors all 737 MAX flights via satellite.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sudden turbulence sometimes experienced when flying is called clear-air turbulence, so named because there are no visible clouds or atmospheric features to warn of the disruption. Turbulent invisible air can seemingly come out of nowhere and wreak havoc on aircraft. Though it isn\u2019t easily detected visually, clear-air turbulence has a definite infrasound signature. Researchers Qamar Shams and Allan Zuckerwar at NASA\u2019s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, realized that if air traffic controllers or pilots could listen in on these whirling vortices before airplanes encounter them, an alternate route could be plotted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their experiments began in 2007, but, unsurprisingly, initial tests showed that they couldn\u2019t grab just any off-the-shelf microphone and expect it to work with infrasound. The long wave frequencies tend to get overpowered by higher-frequency sounds, which results in interference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe found that the sensors get saturated and they don\u2019t perform well,\u201d Shams said. \u201cWe thought, \u2018We have combined expertise in instrumentation, so why don\u2019t we design a microphone ourselves?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shams and Zuckerwar began developing something that could listen to these low frequencies in high fidelity. Microphones use a moving diaphragm to pick up audio where sound waves cause the surface to vibrate. The researchers used a low-tension diaphragm with a wide radius paired with a large, sealed air chamber behind it to allow the microphone to hear these ultralow sound waves that travel great distances. The infrasonic microphones are manufactured by PCB Piezotronics of Depew, New York, under contract with Langley. With the sensor completed, testing began. When the microphones were placed in an equidistant triangular pattern around the grounds of Langley\u2019s runway, they were able to pick up and locate atmospheric turbulence more than 300 miles away, in the skies above Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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