32th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences

01 - Aircraft Design and Integrated Systems

METHODOLOGY FOR OBTAINING AN OPTIMIZED BAFFLED AIRFOIL FOR AN INFLATABLE WING

S.R. Mistri¹, R.S. Pant¹, C.S. Yerramalli¹, A. Guha¹; ¹Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay, India

A methodology has been developed for conversion of a conventional airfoil to an inflatable baffled airfoil hence bridging a major research gap. The current configuration optimizes equally spaced baffles to geometrically best reflect the original airfoil. The main objective of this study is to pose the problem of design of an inflatable baffled airfoil in a multidisciplinary optimization framework.


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