Rotorcraft Conceptual Design Environment

Abstract

Requirements for a rotorcraft conceptual design environment are discussed, from the perspective of a government laboratory. Rotorcraft design work in a government laboratory must support research, by producing technology impact assessments and defining the context for research and development; and must support the acquisition process, including capability assessments and quantitative evaluation of designs, concepts, and alternatives. An information manager that will enable increased fidelity of analysis early in the design effort is described. This manager will be a framework to organize information that describes the aircraft, and enable movement of that information to and from analyses. Finally, a recently developed rotorcraft system analysis tool is described.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA529156

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey D. Sinsay
  • Wayne Johnson

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Geometry
  • Governments
  • Helicopters
  • Reliability
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Software Design
  • Systems Engineering
  • Tilt Rotor Aircraft
  • Vertical Takeoff Aircraft

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design