26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-2.4.4

AERODYNAMIC DESIGN OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL BIPLANE WINGS FOR LOW-WAVE DRAG SUPERSONIC FLIGHT

D. Maruyama
Tohoku Univ., Japan

Keywords: Supersonic, Biplane, Inverse Design, CFD, Off-Design Condition

Aiming to propose low-wave drag supersonic transport, practical three-dimensional biplane wings based on the concept of Busemann Biplane will be presented. There are mainly two problems with supersonic biplanes. One is drag penalty at their off-design conditions and the other is drag increment due to wing tip effect.

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