New Design Concepts for High Speed Air Transport (CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, 366)

This book presents the challenges, the tools and the concepts for developing economically viable high speed civil transport aircraft under environmental constraints. Computational tools for aircraft design and optimization are outlined and application in an industrial environment is shown for new and innovative case studies. Front Matter....Pages ii-viii The Prospects for Commercial Supersonic Transport....Pages 1-12 Aircraft Economy for Design Tradeoffs....Pages 13-30 Son of Concorde, A Technology Challenge....Pages 31-51 Aerodynamic Multi Point Design Challenge....Pages 53-67 Required Aerodynamic Technologies....Pages 69-96 Certification of Supersonic Civil Transports....Pages 97-103 Gasdynamic Knowledge Base for High Speed Flow Modelling....Pages 105-119 Configurations with Specified Shock Waves....Pages 121-135 Geometry Generator for CFD and Applied Aerodynamics....Pages 137-157 Aerodynamic Shape Inverse Design Methods....Pages 159-173 Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Methods....Pages 175-187 Combined Optimization and Inverse Design of 3-D Aerodynamic Shapes....Pages 189-200 Thermal Inverse Design and Optimization....Pages 201-212 Structural Inverse Design and Optimization....Pages 213-221 Multidisciplinary Inverse Design and Optimization (MIDO)....Pages 223-236 Supersonic Aircraft Shape Optimization....Pages 237-250 Multi-Disciplinary Supersonic Transport Design....Pages 251-273 Laminar Flow for Supersonic Transports....Pages 275-290 The Oblique Flying Wing Transport....Pages 291-315 Oblique Flying Wing Studies....Pages 317-336