Energy-Based Design Methodology for Air Vehicle Systems: Aerodynamic Correlation Study

Abstract

This fundamental study served to formulate and predict numerically incompressible airfoil and wing performance in terms entropy generation and develop a useful understanding of its role in design. This work is part of a larger effort to define system-level energy-based design across the spectrum of aircraft size and speed. Work was performed at both AFRL and at Clemson with the intent of developing in-house expertise at AFRL.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA431388

Entities

People

  • Richard S. Figliola

Organizations

  • Clemson University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Airfoils
  • All Wing Aircraft
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Contracts
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Students
  • Turbulence
  • Two Dimensional
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.