24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-4.4.3

OPTWIN-A CONSTRAINED NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATION METHOD FOR WING/HORIZONTAL TAILPLANE DESIGN

J. Jiménez-Varona, A. Pascual-Fuertes
INTA, Carretera de Ajalvir Km. 4.5, 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain

Keywords: Design, Tailplane, Optimisation, Wing, Multidisciplinary

A code based on a constrained numerical optimisation method -named OPTWIN- has been developed at INTA to adress 3D aerodynamic design problems. The test cases carried out show the reliability of this tool for wing/HTP design in a multidisciplinary environment.

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