Conceptual design of sonic boom stealth supersonic transports

dc.contributor.authorSun, Yicheng
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Howard
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-19T12:33:51Z
dc.date.available2022-01-19T12:33:51Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-13
dc.description.abstractThis paper introduces a supersonic transport aircraft design model developed in the GENUS aircraft conceptual design environment. A conceptual design model appropriate to supersonic transports with low-to-medium-fidelity methods are developed in GENUS. With this model, the authors reveal the relationship between the sonic boom signature and the lift and volume distributions and the possibility to optimise the lift distribution and volume distribution together so that they can cancel each other at some region. A new inspiring design concept—sonic boom stealth is proposed by the authors. The sonic boom stealth concept is expected to inspire the supersonic aircraft designers to design low-boom concepts through aircraft shaping and to achieve low ground impacts. A family of different classes of supersonic aircraft, including a single-seat supersonic demonstrator (0.47 psf), a 10-passenger supersonic business jet (0.90 psf) and a 50-seat supersonic airliner (1.02 psf), are designed to demonstrate the sonic boom stealth design principles. Although, there are challenges to balance the volume with packaging and control requirements, these concepts prove the feasibility of low-boom low-drag design for supersonic transports from a multidisciplinary perspective.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationSun Y, Smith H. (2022) Conceptual design of sonic boom stealth supersonic transports, CEAS Aeronautical Journal, Volume 13, Issue 2, April 2022, pp. 419–432en_UK
dc.identifier.eissn1869-5590
dc.identifier.issn1869-5582
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s13272-021-00567-x
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/17438
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherSpringeren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectSonic boom stealthen_UK
dc.subjectSupersonic transporten_UK
dc.subjectAircraft conceptual designen_UK
dc.subjectMultidisciplinary design analysis optimisationen_UK
dc.titleConceptual design of sonic boom stealth supersonic transportsen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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