Ready for Take-Off: Scaled Flight Testing

Atmospheric free flight scaled flight testing is an affordable way to investigate the dynamic properties of an aircraft, while enabling a wider range of test possibilities than a windtunnel. This research is the first step into the development of a scaled flight testing model and as such will highlighted the difficulties and discrepancies which...

Surrogate Modelling for Airfoil Shape optimization

Airfoil optimizations require costly high-fidelity solvers. By replacing the expensive solver with a cheap to evaluate surrogate model genetic optimization becomes feasible and a global optimum can be obtained. This thesis investigates applicability of surrogate model based optimization for airfoil optimization and provides recommendations...