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Computer-aided design: aerodynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

A. B. Haines
A. B. Haines*
Affiliation:
Aircraft Research Association Ltd, Bedford
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In recent years, there have been rapid advances in the development of theoretical methods in aerodynamics, particularly for transonic flow calculations. Many papers have been written on this topic. It is however appropriate that there should now be a paper that concentrates not so much on the methods themselves but on the use of the methods for computer-aided design. One could say that the most striking development in the UK in the past two-three years has been that the methods are no longer merely within the preserve of the research establishments; they are being actively used by the aircraft industry in the design of actual aircraft projects. Any air of scepticism about their value has been dispelled. The designers are now appreciating through their own experience that with the aid of a powerful computer and indeed in some cases, a computer of only modest capacity, they can specify a shape for the first wind tunnel model of a new project with much more confidence that the test results will show that the shape is near what is required to achieve their design objectives. It is already being claimed that in this way, the time-scale of the design cycle is being shortened considerably. Also, the computer and the theoretical methods are being used increasingly in the interpretation of the test data. The forecasting of the full-scale characteristics on the basis of the model test data is developing into more of a science and less of an art based on past experience.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 83 , Issue 819 , March 1979 , pp. 81 - 91
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1979 

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