{"title":"Design and CFD Analysis of a Blended Wing UAV (A Conceptual Design)","authors":"Khan Tayyab","doi":"10.36959/422/435","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Aerodynamic Forces mainly lift and Drag acting on an aircraft, are directly related to the geometry and wing profile of an aircraft. In this research we first designed a blended wing UAV (using X48B as a baseline model) and then performed the CFD analysis. Focusing on the lift to drag ratio in Cruise conditions, we made changes to our initial design based on critical pressure regions found by simulation and afterwards improved our design to almost three times by making changes to the initial geometry.","PeriodicalId":130516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.36959/422/435","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Aerodynamic Forces mainly lift and Drag acting on an aircraft, are directly related to the geometry and wing profile of an aircraft. In this research we first designed a blended wing UAV (using X48B as a baseline model) and then performed the CFD analysis. Focusing on the lift to drag ratio in Cruise conditions, we made changes to our initial design based on critical pressure regions found by simulation and afterwards improved our design to almost three times by making changes to the initial geometry.