Most of the current cost models focus on a particular manufacturing process or a specific maintenance aspect, therefore not providing the whole picture. The main challenge in modelling the manufacturing cost, associated ...

A model-based engineering (MBE) framework has been developed for Multi-Disciplinary Optimisation (MDO) of a Blended Wing Body (BWB) configuration during early design stages. Specifically, a planform optimisation has been ...

This paper presents a numerical feasibility study of a spinning cylinder mounted on the leading edge and trailing edge of a flap to improve lift force generation. The baseline used in this study is a two-dimensional NLR ...

SPIV is a powerful tool to assess aircraft wing vortex wakes. Current optical systems enable velocity vector measurements at sample rates of 10Hz. This facilitates detailed assessment of flows containing multiple, potentially ...

This work deals with the aerodynamics optimisation of a generic two-dimensional three element high-lift configuration. Although the high-lift system is applied only during take-off and landing in the low speed phase of the ...

Since modern transport aircraft cruise at transonic speeds, shock buffet alleviation is one indispensable challenge that civil transport research needs to be addressed. Indeed, in the transonic flow regime shock-induced ...

This paper presents some results comparing the use of the Full Potential equations, coupled with the turbulent integral boundary layer equations for aircraft transonic cruise analysis. Use of such a method in the conceptual ...