22nd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Harrogate, UK, 28 August - 1st September, 2000
Paper ICAS 2000-1.3.R1

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A JET-UAV CONCEPTUAL DESIGN CODE

H. Wang, H. Hung
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, PRC

Keywords: uav, design code

Using the preliminary design of a medium range JET-UAV as the research background, a computer aided parameter optimization program which is suitable to the medium range JET-UAV is developed in this thesis. The main work of this thesis is the development of the analysis modules, such as the aerodynamics analysis and weight analysis modules which are applicable to the computer aided parameter optimization program of the medium range JETUAV. To check the validity of the computer aided parameter optimization program of the thesis, first of all, a JET-UAV manufactured by Italy (Mirach-100) was analyzed as a computation example, and the optimization parameter sensitivity analysis was done. Then two of the medium range JET-UAV design schemes were compared. The results showed that the computer aided parameter optimization program constructed in this thesis is feasible and reasonable. For the medium range JET-UAV preliminary design, the computer program is useful and helpful.

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