Summary Advanced aircraft design is characterized by multipoint, multidisciplinary requirements. Optimization techniques probe the aerodynamic, flight mechanical and structural design sensitivities for a balanced vehicle-system. Aircraft optimization exercises were performed in an universal optimization environment, which controls the CAD, robust mesh generation, RANS-flow simulation and the selection of multidisziplinary variables. Genetic algorithms, evolutionary strategies and simplex were used. The algorithms applied will be compared.
Aerodynamic Optimization of an UCAV Configuration
MEGADESIGN and MegaOpt - German Initiatives for Aerodynamic Simulation and Optimization in Aircraft Design ; 5 ; 263-285
2009-01-01
23 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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