... involve a trade-off between reducing drag and providing enough length for positioning the empennage to ensure stability. However, if the main wing can fulfill the stability requirements without the need for a tailplane, then the fuselage design requirements can be re-evaluated. The optimisation...

... of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Tandem wing Optimisation Dynamic stability Response to control Unconventional configuration b_F = wingspan of the front wing [m]; b_F/b_R = span factor, ratio...

... the MGAERO software which is a commercial computing fluid dynamics tool created by Analytical Methods, Inc. This software uses the Euler flow model. Results from this software were used in the static stability evaluation and trim condition analysis. The trim conditions are the outcome of the optimisation...

... as a black box from within the aircraft preliminary design optimisation loops. The surrogate model reduces the uncertainty of coarse-grain formulas and may result in more competitive aircraft and engine designs. The surrogate model has been integrated in a collaborative cross-organisational workflow between...

...Richard Butler Computer programs which model the static, dynamic and aeroelastic response of wing structures, and which permit optimisation of such structures, have been under development for more than 30 years. However, the industrial application of these programs remains small. This paper...