Wing aerostructural optimization using the Individual Discipline Feasible architecture

At present, on the aviation market a need exists for lighter and more efficient aircraft than the ones dominating the airspace today. Beside the reduction in operating costs and air pollutants of these new generation aircraft, this reduction in fuel use can result in several advantages with respect to the performance of the aircraft like...

Design and Analysis of Swirl Recovery Vanes for an Isolated and a Wing Mounted Tractor Propeller

In light of the energy crisis of the early 1970's, NASA and industry gained a renewed interest in high-speed propellers for improved propulsive efficiency and explored the idea of swirl recovery vanes (SRV) to generate a net thrust from the residual swirl in the propeller slipstream. After this first effort on the aerial application of SRV, only...

Wing Shape Multidisciplinary Design Optimization

Multidisciplinary design optimizations have shown great benefits for aerospace applications in the past. Especially in the last decades with the advent of high speed computing. Still computational time limits the desire for models with high level of fidelity cannot be always fulfilled. As a conse- quence, fidelity is often sacrificed in order to...