Optimal Fuel Feed Strategy for Asymmetric Arranged Multi-tanks Aircraft

Abstract

Aircraft fuel system, which provides a continuous source of fuel to the engine, is an important component of the aircraft. Although the sequential fuel feed strategy for the symmetric arranged multi-tanks aircraft is widely used in today’s aircraft, the fuel feed strategy of the asymmetric arranged multi-tanks is still a challenge. In this article, a two layer offline approach is developed to obtain the fuel feed strategy to minimize the difference between the actual center of gravity (CG) and the desired CG. The performance of the proposed approach is tested in a case study based on the test data of aircraft pitch movement. The result indicates that the proposed approach solves the problem with an offline manner from the optimization perspective.