Computation of Aircraft Stability Derivatives Using an Automatic Differentiation Adjoint Approach
X-HALE: A Very Flexible Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Nonlinear Aeroelastic Tests
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization: A Survey of Architectures
Multidisciplinary design optimization is a field of research that studies the application of numerical optimization techniques to the
...Geometrically Nonlinear Aeroelastic Scaling for Very Flexible Aircraft
Multimission Aircraft Fuel-Burn Minimization via Multipoint Aerostructural Optimization
Computing Stability Derivatives and Their Gradients for Aerodynamic Shape Optimization
Aerodynamic shape optimization of aircraft configurations often ignores stability considerations. To address this, a method for the
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Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Investigations of the Common Research Model Wing Benchmark
Multipoint Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Investigations of the Common Research Model Wing
Buffet-Onset Constraint Formulation for Aerodynamic Shape Optimization
High-fidelity computational modeling and optimization of aircraft configurations have the potential to enable engineers to create more
...Benchmark Aerostructural Models for the Study of Transonic Aircraft Wings
Component-Based Geometry Manipulation for Aerodynamic Shape Optimization with Overset Meshes
Propeller Effects on the Response of High-Altitude Long-Endurance Aircraft
Multimodality in Aerodynamic Wing Design Optimization
The application of gradient-based optimization to wing design could potentially reveal revolutionary new wing concepts. Giving the
...Loop-Separation Control for Very Flexible Aircraft
In this research, a loop-separation concept (LSC) is applied to a very flexible aircraft. Appealing features of this control
...Flexible Formulation of Spatial Integration Constraints in Aerodynamic Shape Optimization
Data-Driven Forecasting of Postflutter Responses of Geometrically Nonlinear Wings
Ensuring adequate flutter margins is a critical step in aircraft design. However, in the presence of nonlinear effects, subcritical
...Aeroelastic Stability of Conventional and Tow-Steered Composite Plates Under Stochastic Fiber Volume
DAFoam: An Open-Source Adjoint Framework for Multidisciplinary Design Optimization with OpenFOAM
The inclusion of transition-to-turbulence effects in computational fluid dynamics simulations is essential to accurately predict drag
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