Probabilistic Design of Airfoils for Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine

This work follows the wind energy airfoil probabilistic design approach that allows to derive a probability density function which gives an estimation of how much the angle of attack is likely to fluctuate, according to the considered non-uniform perturbations in the wind speed. Several combinations of the perturbation sources are possible in...

Preliminary Propulsion System Design and Integration for a Box-Wing Aircraft Configuration: A Knowledge Based Engineering Approach

The design and integration of the propulsion system is known to be an interesting, multi-disciplinary challenge in aircraft design projects. Especially for new aircraft configurations, it is important to gain a lot of knowledge in the preliminary design stages. An example of such an unconventional configuration is the box-wing aircraft examined...

Stability & control derivatives prediction for box wing aircraft configurations

In early design stages of aircraft, component sizing is to a large extent based on semi empirical methods, which are generally lacking for unconventional aircraft configurations. This increases the uncertainty of the performances of the generated design, such as its stability and controllability. This work aims at using a more physics-based...