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dc.contributor.advisorTaghavi, Ray
dc.contributor.authorBrown, Matthew Alan
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-18T03:22:05Z
dc.date.available2014-06-18T03:22:05Z
dc.date.issued2013-12-31
dc.date.submitted2013
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13154
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/14195
dc.description.abstractThe methods presented in this work are intended to provided an easy to understand and easy to apply method for determining the distributed aerodynamic loads and aerodynamic characteristics of planforms of nearly arbitrary shape. Through application of the cranked wing approach, most planforms can be modeled including nearly all practical lifting surfaces with some notable exceptions. The methods are extremely accurate for elliptic wings and rectangular wings with some notable difficulty attributed to swept wings and wings with control surface deflection. A method for accounting for the shift in the locus of aerodynamic centers is also presented and applied to the lifting line theory to mitigate singularities inherent in its formulation. Comparisons to other numerical methods as well as theoretical equations and experimental data suggest that the method is reasonably accurate, but limited by some of its contributing theories. Its biggest benefit is its ability to estimate viscous effects which normally require more sophisticated models.
dc.format.extent157 pages
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Kansas
dc.rightsThis item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author.
dc.subjectAerospace engineering
dc.subjectAerodyanmic loads
dc.subjectCranked wing
dc.subjectWing aerodyanmics
dc.subjectWing loads
dc.titleA Computational Method for Determining Distributed Aerodynamic Loads on Planforms of Arbitrary Shape in Compressible Subsonic Flow
dc.typeThesis
dc.contributor.cmtememberFarokhi, Saeed
dc.contributor.cmtememberKeshmiri, Shawn
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineAerospace Engineering
dc.thesis.degreeLevelM.S.
kusw.oastatusna
kusw.oapolicyThis item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria.
kusw.bibid8086534
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccess


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