The Flight Vehicle Design and Fabrication Course: Two Decades of Project-Based Learning at Penn State

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Cole ◽  
Mark Maughmer ◽  
Kathy Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Vehicle Design ◽  
Flight Vehicle ◽  
Penn State

Design of top mounted supersonic inlets for a cylindrical fuselage

2018 ◽  
Vol 233 (8) ◽  
pp. 2956-2979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eiman B Saheby ◽  
Huang Gouping ◽  
Anthony Hays
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Vehicle Design ◽  
Flight Vehicle ◽  
Propulsive Efficiency ◽  
Supersonic Inlet ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations ◽  
Design Integration ◽  
Dynamics Simulations ◽  
Dimensional Wave

Designing an inlet based on the fuselage geometry and its constraints is an important part of flight vehicle design. Among the different possible configurations, design integration of a supersonic inlet with a cylindrical fuselage is a major challenge. On one hand, propulsive efficiency requirements force the designers to consider the simplest compression surfaces for the inlet entrance geometries and on the other hand, the considerable drag of inlet/diverter integrations needs to be minimized, which can affect the inlet. In this paper, two new concepts as a replacement for a top mounted pitot inlet are presented: a three-dimensional wave-derived inlet and a trigonometric bump inlet. They are designed based on computational fluid dynamics simulations and their performance has been measured and compared with the initial single normal shock inlet as a baseline.

scholarly journals HIFiRE-5 Flight Vehicle Design

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Kimmel ◽  
David Adamczak ◽  
Karen Berger ◽  
Meelan Choudhari
Keyword(s):  
Vehicle Design ◽  
Flight Vehicle

scholarly journals Evaluation Model of Design for Operation and Architecture of Hierarchical Virtual Simulation for Flight Vehicle Design

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hu LIU ◽  
Yongliang TIAN ◽  
Chaoying ZHANG ◽  
Jiao YIN ◽  
Yijie SUN
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Virtual Simulation ◽  
Vehicle Design ◽  
Flight Vehicle

Multidisciplinary Design Method Taking Traditional Manufacturing Factors into Account

2011 ◽  
Vol 323 ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
Chang Qing Liu ◽  
Wen Cai Luo
Keyword(s):  
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Collaborative Optimization ◽  
Multidisciplinary Design ◽  
Vehicle Design ◽  
Flight Vehicle ◽  
Profit Model ◽  
Total Profit ◽  
Process Cost ◽  
Traditional Manufacturing

To investigate the effect of incorporating traditional manufacturing factors into Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) process, cost-profit model was established and Collaborative Optimization (CO) was adopted to optimize the objective taking account of the traditional manufacture discipline as well as other disciplines. At the same time, the model without a manufacture discipline was also calculated using CO strategy for the purpose of comparison here. The multidisciplinary method was instantiated by a typical flight vehicle design problem. Results of simulation and sensitivity analysis show that the total profit of design is increased as compared to former design without involving manufacture discipline, and more control flexibility is obtained. Hence it stands to reason to conclude that manufacture should be treated as a discipline in typical MDO processes in further study.

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