Structures Education within the Penn State Flight Vehicle Design and Fabrication Course

Author(s):  
Julia Cole ◽  
Mark Maughmer ◽  
Kathy Jackson
Author(s):  
Eiman B Saheby ◽  
Huang Gouping ◽  
Anthony Hays

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.


Author(s):  
Roger Kimmel ◽  
David Adamczak ◽  
Karen Berger ◽  
Meelan Choudhari

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hu LIU ◽  
Yongliang TIAN ◽  
Chaoying ZHANG ◽  
Jiao YIN ◽  
Yijie SUN

2011 ◽  
Vol 323 ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
Chang Qing Liu ◽  
Wen Cai Luo

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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