Aircraft aerodynamic design : geometry and optimization /

• Main Authors: Sóbester, András (Author), Forrester, Alexander I. J. (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, England : Wiley, 2015.
• Series: Aerospace series (Chichester, England)
• Subjects: Airframes.; Aerodynamics.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Aeronautics & Astronautics.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Engineering (General); Electronic books.

"Optimal aircraft design is impossible without a parametric representation of the geometry of the airframe. We need a mathematical model equipped with a set of controls, or design variables, which generates different candidate airframe shapes in response to changes in the values of these variab...