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Recent applications of advanced computational methods in the aerodynamic design of transport aircraft configurations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

F. T. Lynch
F. T. Lynch*
Affiliation:
Douglas Aircraft Company, McDonnell Douglas Corporation
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Aerodynamic designers of transport aircraft have been dreaming for decades of being able to use, for high speed design problems, some of the advanced computational tools that they now have available to them such as the three-dimensional transonic flow methods and three-dimensional finite-difference boundary-layer methods. It is anticipated by the designer and his management that the appropriate use of these new advanced computational methods on the wing design of the next subsonic transport aircraft configuration will typically result in an improved aerodynamic technology level, an improved aerodynamic efficiency for a given level of aerodynamic technology, and reduced design costs through a reduction in the amount of wind tunnel testing required and the resulting shortened time period required to define the final lines.

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Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 82 , Issue 816 , December 1978 , pp. 503 - 516
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1978 

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