A challenge for the scientific community is to adapt to and exploit the trend towards greater multidisciplinary focus in research and technology. This work is concerned with multi-disciplinary design for whole aircraft ...

Interactivity always involves two entities; one of them by default is a human user. The specialised subject of human factors is introduced in the context of computational aerodynamics and optimisation, specifically a ...

This thesis addresses the maximum lift prediction early in the design stage. To do so, the wing high-lift element positions is optimised to estimate the maximum achievable lift. Aircraft design is currently done in at least ...

The volatility and associated uncertainties of a rapid evolving power sector, along with the digitalisation of the sector, have triggered the necessity of answering questions faster while dealing with more granularity in ...

Automotive components are tested extensively in wind tunnels by automotive manufacturers and race teams. This is usually achieved using an accurate scale model representation of the component within the wind tunnel. Automotive ...

We analyse the uncertainty present at the structural-sizing stage of aircraft design due to interactions between aeroelastic loading and incomplete structural definition. In particular, we look at critical load case ...