15 - Guest lectures
A MULTIFIDELITY MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO UNCONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT WITH APPLICATION TO THE STRUT-BRACED-WING AND HYBRID-WING-BODY CONFIGURATIONS
D.W. Zingg¹, T. Chau¹, A.L. Gray¹, T.A. Reist¹; ¹University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, Canada
We present an approach to the investigation and assessment of unconventional aircraft configurations based on multifidelity multidisciplinary optimization, in particular to the problem formulation, including the choice of disciplines, the associated level of fidelity of the analysis, and the operating requirements. Applications to the strut-braced wing and hybrid wing-body aircraft are presented.