Aerodynamic studies for blended wing body aircraft

9th AIAA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Qin, N ^a   Vavalle, A ^a   Le Moigne, A ^a   Laban, M ^b   Hackett, K ^c   Weinerfelt, P ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NLR ^*  (Sweden)

^c QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT;

AERODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY; BLENDED WING BODY AIRCRAFTS; BLENDED WING BODY CONFIGURATIONS; DISCRETE ADJOINT; EUROPEAN PROJECT; INVERSE DESIGNS; LOW FIDELITIES; SPANWISE DISTRIBUTION;

AERODYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS;

EID: 84879023904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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