The GENUS aircraft conceptual design environment

Smith, Howard; Sziroczak, David; Abbe, Godwin; Okonkwo, Paul

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dc.creator	Smith, Howard
dc.creator	Sziroczak, David
dc.creator	Abbe, Godwin
dc.creator	Okonkwo, Paul
dc.date	2018-08-30T14:02:51Z
dc.date	2018-08-30T14:02:51Z
dc.date	2018-07-16
dc.date.accessioned	2022-05-25T16:38:04Z
dc.date.available	2022-05-25T16:38:04Z
dc.identifier	Howard Smith, David Sziroczak, Godwin Abbe and Paul Okonkwo. The GENUS aircraft conceptual design environment. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Available online 16 July 2018
dc.identifier	0954-4100
dc.identifier	https://doi.org/10.1177/0954410018788922
dc.identifier	http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13433
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182291
dc.description	The design of aircraft has evolved over time from the classical design approach to the more modern computer-based design method utilizing multivariate design optimization. In recent years, aircraft concepts and configurations have become more diverse and complex thus pushing many synthesis packages beyond their capability. Furthermore, many examples of aircraft design software focus on the analysis of one particular concept thus requiring separate packages for each concept. This can lead to complications in comparing concepts and configurations as differences in performance may originate from different prediction toolsets being used. This paper presents the GENUS Aircraft Design Framework developed by Cranfield University’s Aircraft Design Group to address these issues. The paper reviews available aircraft design methodologies and describes the challenges faced in their development and application. Following this, the GENUS aircraft design environment is introduced, along with the theoretical background and practical reasoning behind the program architecture. Particular attention is given to the programming, choice of methodology, and optimization techniques involved. Subsequently, some applications of the developed methodology, implemented in the framework are presented to illustrate the diversity of the approach. Three special classes of aircraft design concept are presented briefly.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	SAGE
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject	GENUS
dc.subject	aircraft design
dc.subject	conceptual design
dc.subject	knowledge management
dc.subject	design framework
dc.subject	design environment
dc.title	The GENUS aircraft conceptual design environment
dc.type	Article