Design of an Aircraft Wing for Given Flight Conditions and Planform Area

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Abstract

Wing design is crucial in order to get required performance during flight. Wing design includes selection of airfoil, planform shape with a host of parameters like leading edge sweep, thickness to chord ratio and twist. Design of wing for a 20 ton class combat air-craft, capable of supersonic cruise (M = 1.3 at an altitude 6 km) and for short take-off and landing is considered as a test case. A sequential selection method is used in this study as a first step before full DoE-based optimization. NACA 64A series airfoils are used for construction of various wing geometries by varying (a) camber 0–5 % (b) leading edge sweepback angle of 42° ± 3° (c) maximum thickness to chord ratio of 4–5 %, and (d) geometric twist angle of about 0°–1°. CATIA software is used for creating the wing geometry. ANSYS-Fluent software is used for CFD simulations. The plain wing geometry is arrived by sequentially analyzing each geometric parameter. Simulations are also performed for wing with high-lift devices, HLDs, like leading edge slat and trailing edge flap for take-off and landing condition. For required flight condition plain wing with airfoil NACA 64A204, 42° leading edge sweepback, −0.53° twist and 0.23° wing incidence angle showed improved aerodynamic performance than baseline wing. The selected plain wing with HLDs of +12.5° deflection at M = 0.25 has slightly more lift coefficient and (L/D)max than wings with HLDs at other deflection and Mach number.

Keywords

Supersonic cruise NACA 64 series airfoil Sweepback wing Symmetric and cambered wing Wing twist High-lift devices 
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Acknowledgments

The authors thankfully acknowledge authorities of MSRUAS for granting permission to publish this work.

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© Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017

Authors and Affiliations

  • H. P. Bharath
    • 1
  • H. K. Narahari
    • 1
  • A. T. Sriram
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Automotive and Aeronautical EngineeringM. S. Ramaiah University of Applied SciencesBangaloreIndia

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