Abstract

Aero-optical effects caused by hypersonic turbulence will affect the accuracy of optical sensors on aircraft. Traditional analysis methods, which do not consider absorption and scattering effects, cannot easily be used to completely describe the transmission process of light in hypersonic turbulence. In this paper, an aero-optical effect analysis method based on photon Monte Carlo simulation (MC-AOEA) was proposed to explain the distortion characteristics of aero-optical effects from the perspective of photon statistics. The energy distribution of photons in the transmission process was determined by taking a photon packet as a unit, and the microscopic statistics of the photon dissipation energy for all photon packets were calculated. The effectiveness of this method was verified by comparing the photon statistical parameters with the traditional optical distortion physical quantities. MC-AOEA was used to analyze the distortion of aero-optical effects at different altitudes and speeds. Additionally, the simulation results showed that, with the reduction in flight altitude and the enhancement of speed, the distortion of aero-optical effects was aggravated, and the energy loss was more serious, which provides a reference for the evaluation of aero-optical effect errors.

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