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Aero structural optimization for sailplane wing in preliminary design

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  • Ahmed El Ibrahim

    (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey)

  • Sohayb Abdul Karim

    (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey)

  • Ibrahim Gov

    (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey)

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to obtain optimized sailplane wing design, which contributes to better performance in terms of range and endurance. This paper presents aerostructural design optimization using Multidisciplinary Design Optimization approach (MDO). This is carried out using Open Aero Struct (OAS), an open-source low-fidelity aerostructural analysis and optimization tool written in Python and developed in NASA’s Open MDAO framework. The aerostructural model in OAS coupled a Vortex Lattice Method for aerodynamic with a 1-D Finite- Element Analysis for structure, to model the sailplane wing. An aerostructural optimization problem was formulated to minimize the Sink Speed, as the objective function, with varying twelve design variables, and subjected to two constraints. An initial simple wing design is used as baseline for the optimization. The findings of the aerostructural optimization indicated that the optimized wing exhibited improvements in both disciplines, resulting a better cross-country performance for the sailplane in terms of range and endurance. The optimized wing achieved increase of 37% in endurance and 27% in range.

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  • Ahmed El Ibrahim & Sohayb Abdul Karim & Ibrahim Gov, 2018. "Aero structural optimization for sailplane wing in preliminary design," Journal of Advances in Technology and Engineering Research, A/Professor Akbar A. Khatibi, vol. 4(1), pages 37-47.
    • Handle: RePEc:apb:jaterr:2018:p:37-47
    DOI: 10.20474/jater-4.1.5
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