... vehicle design synthesis (AVDS) Synthesis tool development Parametric sizing Aircraft design Design AVDS = Aerospace Vehicle Design Synthesis; AVDS ^PS = Aerospace Vehicle Design Synthesis – Parametric Sizing; AVDS ^CE = Aerospace Vehicle Design...

... 28 10 2025 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Aircraft design CFD UAV Tail configuration Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (2209-B program, project no. 1139B412302010) and Turkish Aerospace...

... aircraft sizing methods are systematically analyzed. In particular, repeating and nonrepeating tasks and common or unique tasks. Then ordered in a sequence and described generically. Findings A development process for new aircraft design methods which are necessary for new technologies...

... are typical features of aerodynamically efficient BWB. Originality/value As the role of the square/cube law in the conceptual aircraft design stage has not been sufficiently studied in the literature, the application of this law to BWBs, a new generation of designs, makes the study original. Estimation...

... 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only FEM CAD Aircraft design Mass analysis ρ = air density [kg/m³]; CD = aerodynamic drag coefficient; CL = aerodynamic lift coefficient; g = gravity...

...João Antônio Dantas de Jesus Ferreira; Ney Rafael Secco Purpose This paper aims to investigate the possibility of lowering the time taken during the aircraft design for unmanned aerial vehicles by using machine learning (ML) for the configuration selection phase. In this work, a database...

... Birds UAV Aircraft design Aerodynamics Glider Bioinspiration The morphological features of birds in gliding and thermal turning flights have inspired the invention of gliders. Today, glider pilots, like birds, use thermals and gliding flight to cover long distances. Morphological...

...Seyhun Durmus Purpose As measuring flight performance by experimental methods requires a lot of effort and cost, theoretical models can bring new perspectives to aircraft design. This paper aims to propose a model on the direct calculation of wetted area and L/D_max. Design...

... Aircraft design Constraint analysis Initial sizing Mission profile Personal air vehicle Roadable PAV An optimization process is vital during the conceptual design process of an aircraft because an optimization process can enable the maximum aircraft performance by considering many different...

.... Originality/value Bird strike simulations have been successfully used on aircraft design, mainly at the manufactured articles design validation, testing and certification. This paper presents a hypothetical early design case study of leading edge devices for appropriate material and skin thickness down...

...-wing VTOL Optimization Aircraft design Prandtl-plane Figure 2 Mission profile for the TiltOne Convertiplane are vehicles initially developed in 1950s and 1960s to investigate unconventional configurations capable of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL). The first developed prototypes...

...Hoyon Hwang; Jaeyoung Cha; Jon Ahn Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the development of an optimal design framework for high altitude long endurance solar unmanned aerial vehicle. The proposed solar aircraft design framework provides a simple method to design solar aircraft for users...

... on the experience, the author was able to develop an optimization process considering various disciplines involved in the whole aircraft design topics such as aerodynamics, flight mechanics, structural stiffness and weight, aircraft stability and maneuverability. The presented methodology has a multidisciplinary...

... , D. (2012), “ MADO – software package for high order multidisciplinary aircraft design and optimization ”, Proceedings of 28th International Congress of the Aeronautical Sciences , Brisbane , pp. 481 - 490 . Julien , M. (2016), “ Airbus presents 3D-printed mini aircraft ”, available...

... Aircraft design Aerospaceplane Hypersonics Single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) 30 08 2017 12 07 2018 13 07 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only An analysis of the LEOARTE aerospaceplane and the Suborbital...

... only by students. This allows them to learn various aspects of aircraft design and construction on a soon-to-be real object. Numinosum is a high-wing, unmanned aircraft with a conventional horizontal stabilizer and two vertical stabilizers. This configuration ensures that the tail surfaces...

.... Vittorio Cipolla can be contacted at: vittorio.cipolla@for.unipi.it 18 12 2017 04 07 2018 05 07 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Aircraft design Flight mechanics Novel configurations PARSIFAL PrandtlPlane...

... UAV Aircraft design Hybridization UAS Electric propulsion model Multirotor a = Larger semiaxis of ellipsoid [m]; b = Dimensionless Exponent [–]; c = Smaller semiaxis of ellipsoid [m]; d = Dimensionless Exponent...

... means easy replacement of wings and winglets, and empennage to best correspond with the aircraft designated use (Goraj, 2007). And the high process innovation of the project consists of faster and relatively cheap in-flight testing achieved by combining the manned and unmanned aircraft versions...

... 29 07 2015 15 02 2017 26 02 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Aircraft design Applied aerodynamics Multi-disciplinary design and optimization Computational fluid dynamics Winglet α = Angle...