Aerodynamic Design
For aerodynamic design we believe in the advantages of numerical design optimization and AI-assisted design. We developed in-house numerical optimization software for airfoil and hydrofoil design and for wing planform and winglet design. Successful applications demonstrate the ability to design high quality airfoils, hydrofoils and wing/winglet shapes for your application.
With a Ph.D. in aerodynamics we offer a big variety of tools and methods for flow analysis. We design aircraft exterior aerodynamics using a segregated design approach. In that, we start with a conceptual aircraft sizing, in which the cruical aircraft parameters like masses, wing area, tailplane volumes and engine power are defined. Based on that, airfoils for the lifting surfaces and propeller are developed with our in-house airfoil design code. Subsequently, the wing and winglet shape is optimized with our in-house nonlinear wing planform optimization code. Trim and stability analyzes are performed to ensure benign handling qualities. Performance predictions are performed simultaneously in each step to guarantee exceptional performance.
- Airfoil and hydrofoil design
- Wing planform and winglet design
- Mass breakdown and Center of Gravity analysis
- Stabilizer design, trim and stability analysis
- 3D CFD Analysis
- Design
- Experimental aerodynamic validation
Engineering Software development
Whenever engineering software didn’t meet our requirements or had a poor cost/benefit ratio, we didn’t hesitate and developed our own solutions. We have already developed a variety of software solutions.
Including:
- MorphFoilOpt: Airfoil/Hydrofoil optimization software
- WingPlanform: Wing planform and winglet optimization software
- XFOIL-HL and XFOILSUC-HL: Derivatives of XFOIL for improved maximum lift and drag prediction
- LiLi-NL: non-linear higher order vortex lattice method
- CMTop: nonlinear topology optimization software with stress constraints for the synthesis of robust Compliant Mechanisms
- OML_CAD_MSH: Automatic aircraft outer mold line creation and surface meshing
- VSPrePost: Pre and post processor for VSAero
If you want to use one of our software packages or want your own solution tailored to your needs, feel free to contact us.
Available Software
The following proprietary and open source software is currently available for your projects:
- CATIA
- Solid Works
- Abaqus
- XFOIL/XFOILSUC
- Lifting_Line
- FlightStream
- VSAero
- OpenFoam
- Python and Pycharm
- Flow360