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Blended wing body structural concept development
The Aeronautical Journal, 2010AbstractA lightweight robust airframe design is one of the key technological advancements necessary for the successful launch of a blended wing body aircraft. The non-circular pressure cabin dictates that substantial improvements beyond current state-of-the-art aluminium and composite structures is needed, and that improvements of this magnitude will ...
A. Velicki, P. Thrash
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The Design and Construction of a Blended Wing Body UAV
49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, 2011Our team consists of eight students, all majoring in Aerospace Engineering. We developed and constructed a 5 meter wingspan, fully composite blended wing body aircraft. Our UAV is equipped with a full navigation and autopilot system to allow for autonomous flight.
Daniel Thompson +5 more
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Aerodynamic Studies for Blended Wing Body Aircraft
9th AIAA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, 2002This paper presents aerodynamic studies of a blended wing body (BWB) configuration within an European project, MOB. Firstly, the effects of spanwise distribution on the BWB aircraft aerodynamic efficiency were studied through an inverse design approach, combining both a low fidelity panel method and a high fidelity RANS method.
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Aerodynamic considerations of blended wing body aircraft
Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2004In this paper, we present a progressive aerodynamic study of a blended wing body (BWB) configuration within a European project, MOB (A computational design engine incorporating multi-disciplinary design and optimisation for blended wing body configuration).
N. Qin +5 more
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Blended-wing-body subsonic commercial transport
36th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 1998The Blended-Wing-Body (BWB) airplane concept represents a potential revolution in subsonic transport efficiency for large airplanes. NASA has sponsored an advanced concept study to demonstrate feasibility and begin development of this new class of airplane. In this study, 800 passenger BWB and conventional configuration airplanes have been compared for
R. Liebeck, M. Page, B. Rawdon
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Aerodynamic Characteristics of the Blended Wing Body ACFA2020
2013Unconventional aircraft like blended wing bodies are a possible solution to achieve the ambitious economic and ecologic goals of future air transport systems. Since flight control design and flight performance are strongly influenced by the aircraft aerodynamics, it is inevitable to have accurate aerodynamic predictions even in the preliminary design ...
Michael Meyer, Christian Breitsamter
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Blended-wing-body optimization problem setup
8th Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, 2000This paper shows how the Wing Multidisciplinary Optimization Design (WingMOD) code is used to reconfigure and balance a Blended-Wing-Body (BWB) aircraft. Details are given on how a BWB optimization problem is set up in WingMOD, including how a series of optimizations is used to calibrate WingMOD to external analyses.
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The Effect of Canard on Aerodynamics of Blended Wing Body
Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2011This paper describes the wind tunnel testing of a Blended Wing Body (BWB) with rectangular canards and twisted wing (Baseline II E2 configuration) developed in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). The experiment work was carried out in UiTM low speed wind tunnel using 1:6 scaled model of BWB at Mach 0.1.
M. Ali Zurriati +3 more
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Conceptual Design of a 200 Passenger Blended Wing Body Aircraft
Volume 1: Advances in Aerospace Technology, 2014The Blended Wing Body (BWB) aircraft is based on the flying wing concept. For this aircraft the literature has reported performance improvements compared to conventional aircraft. However, most BWB studies have focused on large aircraft and it is not sure whether the gains are the same for smaller aircraft. The main objective of this work is to perform
Sami Ammar, Jean-Yves Trépanier
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Design Space Exploration of Blended Wing Bodies
AIAA AVIATION 2021 FORUM, 2021Andrew Dorsey, Alejandra Uranga
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