MDAO for aerodynamic assessment of a morphed wing for the loiter segment of a UAV flight mission

2016-01-01
Yang, Yosheph
Özgen, Serkan
Yaman, Yavuz
Ciarella, Andrea
Hahn, Marco
Beaverstock, Chris S.
Friswell, Michael I.
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In this paper a detailed overview of a framework for an optimization of a morphing wing is presented. The framework presented here aids the design process of a morphing UAV wing which includes the variety of the flight phases and morphing concepts. The framework consists of two main solvers to compute the aerodynamic assessment of the wing: a fast low-fidelity module that solves the aeroelastic problem by coupling a geometrically nonlinear structural model to a potential flow aerodynamic model and a high-fidelity CFD module for detailed RANS simulation. This framework is later applied to the optimization of a morphing UAV wing for the loiter phase of the flight. The wing described in this paper is the focus of the European Union FP7 CHANGE project.
Aerodynamics, Aeroelasticity, Computational fluid dynamics, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/73227
24th AIAA/AHS Adaptive Structures Conference, 2016, (4 - 08 Ocak 2016)
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Conference / Seminar

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Y. Yang et al., “MDAO for aerodynamic assessment of a morphed wing for the loiter segment of a UAV flight mission,” presented at the 24th AIAA/AHS Adaptive Structures Conference, 2016, (4 - 08 Ocak 2016), California, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84959210418&origin=inward.
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