28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-1.4.1

OPTIMISATION OF THE HELICOPTER FUSELAGE WITH SIMULATION OF MAIN AND TAIL ROTOR INFLUENCE

W. Stalewski, J. Zoltak
Inst. of Aviation, Poland

Keywords: helicopter, multi-objective parametric optimisation, evolutionary methods, morphing

The purpose of the work was to redesign the helicopter fuselage so as to improve its aerodynamic and geometrical properties. The work was performed using Direct and Numerical Optimisation based on the Genetic Algorithm and the morphing technique. CDF calculations concerned the complete helicopter including main and tail rotor influence.

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