03.4 - Applied Aerodynamics
PRELIMINARY AERODYNAMIC WING DESIGN OPTIMISATION FOR WING-IN-GROUND EFFECT AIRCRAFT
R. Jesudasanš, R. Marianiš, A. Hanifiš; šKTH Royal Institute of Technololgy, Stockholm, Sweden
Wing-in-Ground effect aircraft have become an interesting concept in the context of reducing the environmental footprint and increasing the speed of coastal transport. In this work, a shape optimisation framework is proposed using OpenMDAO, combining a parametric shape modeler OpenVSP, a low fidelity solver VSPAERO and NSGA-II to support the preliminaryrndesign of wing-in-ground effect aircraft.