Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of Medium-Range Transonic Truss-Braced Wing Transport Aircraft

Reliability-Based Multidisciplinary Optimization for Aircraft Wing Design

Aircraft wing design typically involves multiple disciplines such as aerodynamics and structure. Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) has been recently used to deal with the multidisciplinary efforts in wing design. When reliability is considered, MDO for the wing design becomes much more computationally intensive. To improve the efficiency, the strategy of using Sequential Optimization ...

Aerodynamic Analysis of the Truss-Braced Wing Aircraft Using Vortex-Lattice Superposition Approach

The SUGAR Truss-Braced Wing (TBW) aircraft concept is a Boeing-developed N+3 aircraft configuration funded by NASA ARMD Fixed Wing Project. This future generation transport aircraft concept is designed to be aerodynamically efficient by employing a high aspect ratio wing design. The aspect ratio of the TBW is on the order of 14 which is significantly greater than those of current generation tra...

Developing an Accurate CFD Based Gust Model for the Truss Braced Wing Aircraft

The increased flexibility of long endurance aircraft having high aspect ratio wings necessitates attention to gust response and perhaps the incorporation of gust load alleviation. The design of civil transport aircraft with a strut or truss-braced high aspect ratio wing furthermore requires gust response analysis in the transonic cruise range. This requirement motivates the use of high fidelity...

Multidisciplinary Optimization of Transonic Wing Design Based on Evolutionary Algorithms Coupled with Cfd Solver

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) were applied to multidisciplinary transonic wing design optimizations. Aerodynamic performances of the design candidates were evaluated by using the three-dimensional compressive Navier-Stokes equations to guarantee an accurate model of the flow field. The wing structure is modeled on a box-beam to estimate the wing thickness and wing weight. To overcome enormous c...

Oblique Wing: Future Generation Transonic Aircraft