27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-6.10.2

COMPARISONS OF TWO UCAV WING DESIGNS INCLUDING LOW-SPEED EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION

R. K. Nangia, O. J. Boelens*, M. Tormalm**
Nangia Aero Research, UK; *NLR, Netherlands; **FOI, Sweden, Sweden

Keywords: aircraft design, ucav, cfd

For given mission/flight envelope, UCAV’s compromise between efficient high-speed flight, loiter and good low-speed stability/handling. We compare two UCAV Wings (“notional”, designed) including low-speed wind-tunnel verification and CFD (structured/unstructured grids). CFD reflects the main character of wings and the significants improvements offered by the designed wing.

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