Development of a Multi-Disciplinary Design Optimization Framework for a Strut-Braced Wing Transport Aircraft in PACELAB APD 3.1

The purpose of this study was to extend the analysis methods in PACELAB APD 3.1, a recent commercially available aircraft preliminary design tool with potential for MDO applications, for higher fidelity with physics-based instead of empirical methods and to enable the analysis of nonconventional air...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Riggins, Benjamin Kirby
Other Authors: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2015
Subjects:
MDO
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52912