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This report presents the development of a Baseline
Configuration for an Advanced Short Take-Off and Vertical
Landing (ASTOVL) Combat Aircraft, the Design Synthesis
and coding of this Baseline Configuration (Code VERTI),
the interfacing of the Design Synthesis Code VERTI with
the Optimizer code RQPMIN and the optimization of the
Baseline Configuration.
The background and the objectives of this Research
Programme are initially examined. The evaluation of the
ASTOVL Combat Aircraft Baseline Configuration is then
described, including all the problems, assumptions,
choices and compromises that led to the specific
configuration.
The development of the Design Synthesis and the Code
VERTI then follow, where the methodology used, the
techniques adopted and the code operation are explained.
A full description of the Design Synthesis is included as
an appendix.
Finally, the interfacing of Code VERTI with the optimizer
RQPMIN and the optimization of the Baseline Configuration
are presented. The problems and difficulties of the
RQPMIN operation are thoroughly discussed. The RQPMIN-
VERTI code is used to optimize the initial Baseline
Configuration and an optimization example is provided in
appendix form. The optimized Baseline Configuration is
partly validated against two ASTOVL combat aircraft
designs. In addition to the optimization with the
aircraft empty mass as objective function, a search for a
better objective function is attempted. |
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