01.1 - Aircraft Design and Integrated Systems (Theory, Methods and Tools)

IMPLEMENTATION OF PROPELLER-WING INTERFERENCE MODEL AND HORIZONTAL TAIL ANALYSIS INTO A VISCOUS FULL POTENTIAL FLOW SOLVER FRAMEWORK FOR AIRCRAFT DESIGN

T.A. Ramprakash¹, D. Di Pasquale¹, S. Kumar¹; ¹Cranfield University, United Kingdom

This work extends a viscous full potential solver for propeller-driven aircraft by integrating a momentum-based propeller–wing interference model and a wake-based tailplane aerodynamic model. Validation using Cranfield’s SAAB 340 flight data demonstrates improved prediction of power-on performance, stability, and control effects with minimal computational cost.

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DOI: 10.71945/icas2026_0915