Presented By: Aerospace Engineering
Aerospace Department Seminar Series: Analytic Methods and Solutions for the Design of Morphing Aircraft
Doug Hunsaker, Assistant Professor, Utah State University
Doug Hunsaker, Assistant Professor, Utah State University
Future military and commercial aircraft may employ morphing technologies to reduce fuel burn, decrease RADAR signature, and improve maneuverability. These future possibilities present new challenges in aircraft design and optimization that cannot be fully understood through computational methods alone. Just as analytical solutions from thin airfoil theory, lifting-line theory, slender body theory, and others formed the foundation of aircraft design methods in the past century, similar solutions must be obtained to fully understand relationships between morphing aircraft parameters and aircraft performance. This is increasingly important as the number of design variables and geometries increase with increasing morphing capability. Example methods and solutions will be presented that demonstrate how such analytical solutions can be obtained and employed in the design of future morphing aircraft.
About the Speaker
Doug Hunsaker is an assistant professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Utah State University. Before joining the faculty in 2016, he worked for 4 years in industry, including work for Scaled Composites on the Stratolaunch and SpaceShipTwo programs, as well as consulting for multiple drone companies. Doug’s research focus is on analytical and low-fidelity methods for aircraft design and optimization, with an emphasis on subsonic and supersonic morphing aircraft. He currently has grants with the Air Force Research Lab, Office of Naval Research, and NASA to develop and explore relationships of morphing parameters to aircraft performance and control. Doug also has a strong interest in bio-inspired flight.
Future military and commercial aircraft may employ morphing technologies to reduce fuel burn, decrease RADAR signature, and improve maneuverability. These future possibilities present new challenges in aircraft design and optimization that cannot be fully understood through computational methods alone. Just as analytical solutions from thin airfoil theory, lifting-line theory, slender body theory, and others formed the foundation of aircraft design methods in the past century, similar solutions must be obtained to fully understand relationships between morphing aircraft parameters and aircraft performance. This is increasingly important as the number of design variables and geometries increase with increasing morphing capability. Example methods and solutions will be presented that demonstrate how such analytical solutions can be obtained and employed in the design of future morphing aircraft.
About the Speaker
Doug Hunsaker is an assistant professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Utah State University. Before joining the faculty in 2016, he worked for 4 years in industry, including work for Scaled Composites on the Stratolaunch and SpaceShipTwo programs, as well as consulting for multiple drone companies. Doug’s research focus is on analytical and low-fidelity methods for aircraft design and optimization, with an emphasis on subsonic and supersonic morphing aircraft. He currently has grants with the Air Force Research Lab, Office of Naval Research, and NASA to develop and explore relationships of morphing parameters to aircraft performance and control. Doug also has a strong interest in bio-inspired flight.
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