01.1 - Aircraft Design and Integrated System (Basics and Theory)
IMPACT OF THE NUMBER OF WING STATIONS ON THE TWIST DISTRIBUTION OF A BWB CONCEPTUAL AIRCRAFT DESIGN IN A MDAO ENVIRONMENT TO MATCH TARGET LIFT DISTRIBUTION
B. Fröhler¹, M. Iwanizki¹, P. Balack¹, J. Häßy¹, D. Silberhorn¹; ¹German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
The design of BWBs, an optimized wing twist is important to achieve high aerodynamic performance, but on conceptual design level the number of wing stations is often limited to reduce complexity and impedes this optimization. Therefore, this paper presents the feasibility of flexible number of wing stations to achieve an aerodynamically optimized wing twist.