33th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences

03.4 - Applied Aerodynamics

COMPARING POTENTIAL FLOW SOLVERS FOR AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS ESTIMATION OF THE T-FLEX UAV

F. Yu¹, J. Bartasevicius¹, M. Hornung¹; ¹Technical University of Munich, Germany

The FliPASED project aims to design an actively-controlled wing with a MDO toolchain to achieve drag reduction, and test the new design on the T-FLEX demonstrator. Accurate and fast predictions of aerodynamic characteristics is vital in this process. This paper discusses the applicability of low order aerodynamic tools to such aircraft while comparing them with a CFD tool and flight test data.


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