28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS2012-P2.13

PRELIMINARY AERODYNAMIC INVESTIGATION OF AN UNMANNED BOX-WING AIRCRAFT

M. Martínez, C. Cuerno
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Keywords: box-wing, aerodynamics, vortex-lattice

The box-wing configuration is being analyzed for an UAV from a numerical point of view after some experimental research done before. A numerical analysis has been performed to understand the behaviour of the configuration, varying the main parameters through the utilization of vortex-lattice codes, complemented later with viscous effects.

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