The Preliminary Aircraft Design and Optimization Program for Supersonic Commercial Transport Aircraft PrADO-Sup

Author(s):  
Rainer Seubert
2014 ◽  
Vol 553 ◽  
pp. 847-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Morrell ◽  
David J. Munk ◽  
Gareth A. Vio ◽  
Dries Verstraete

The design and optimization of hypersonic aircraft is severely impacted by the high temperatures encountered during flight as they can lead to high thermal stresses and a significant reduction in material strength and stiffness. This reduction in rigidity of the structure requires innovative structural concepts and a stronger focus on aeroelastic deformations in the early design and optimisation of the aircraft structure. This imposes the need for a closer coupling of the aerodynamic and structural design tools than is current practice. The paper presents the development of a multi-disciplinary, closely coupled optimisation suite for hypersonic aircraft. An overview of the setup and structure of the optimization suite is given and the integration between the Tranair solver, used to determine the aerodynamic loads and temperatures, and MSC/NASTRAN, used for the structural sizing and design, will be given.


2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 1259-1263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Tomasella ◽  
Marco Fioriti ◽  
Luca Boggero ◽  
Sabrina Corpino

Aerospace ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Can Alkaya ◽  
Ashish Alex Sam ◽  
Apostolos Pesyridis

The conceptual aircraft design and its integration with a combined cycle engine for hypersonic cruise at Mach 8 is documented in this paper. The paper describes the process taken to develop a hypersonic aircraft from a conceptual approach. The discussion also includes the design and CFD analysis of the integrated combined cycle engine. A final conceptual hypersonic transport aircraft with an integrated combined cycle engine was achieved through this study. According to the analysis carried out, the aircraft is able to take-off and land at the airports it is intended to be used and will be able to generate enough thrust to sustain hypersonic cruise at an altitude of 30 km.


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