Conceptual Design Solution Space Identification and Evaluation of Orbital Lifting Reentry Vehicles based on Generic Wing-Body Configuration

Rana, Loveneesh; McCall, Thomas; Haley, James; Chudoba, Bernd

doi:10.2514/6.2017-5127

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“…As mentioned above, the AVDS system has been applied to design hypersonic cruise vehicles (12) before this SAV application. Besides, the AVDS system has also been applied to design a range of lifting-body (26) and wing-body (21) re-entry vehicles. These applications (that lie outside the scope of the current publication) prove the generic capability of the AVDS system independent of the application constraints.…”

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Demonstration of a prototype design synthesis capability for space access vehicle design

Rana

Chudoba

2020

Aeronaut. j.

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The early conceptual design (CD) phase of space access vehicles (SAVs) is the most abstract, innovative and technologically challenging phase of the entire aerospace design life cycle. Although the design decision-making during this phase influences around 80 percent of the overall life cycle cost, it is the most abstract and thus least understood phase of the entire design life cycle. The history of SAV design provides numerous examples of project failures that could have been avoided if the decision-maker had had the capability to forecast the potential risks and threats correctly ahead of time during the conceptual design phase. The present study addresses this crucial phase and demonstrates a best-practice synthesis methodology prototype to advance the current state of the art of CD as applied to SAV design. Developed by the Aerospace Vehicle Design (AVD) Laboratory at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), the Aerospace Vehicle Design Synthesis process and software (AVDS) is a prototype solution for a flight vehicle configuration–flexible (generic) design synthesis capability that can be applied to the primary categories of SAVs. This study focusses on introducing AVDS, followed by the demonstration and verification of the system’s capability through a sizing case study based on the data-rich Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane.

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“…The X-20 was supposed to be the first space plane in an era that was later dominated by re-entry capsule designs operated under the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. (21) In contrast, the X-20 hypersonic glider was a horizontal landing system implementing a fuselage-low delta-wing design (Fig. 12).…”

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Demonstration of a prototype design synthesis capability for space access vehicle design

Rana

Chudoba

2020

Aeronaut. j.

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Conceptual Design Solution Space Identification and Evaluation of Orbital Lifting Reentry Vehicles based on Generic Wing-Body Configuration

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Demonstration of a prototype design synthesis capability for space access vehicle design

Demonstration of a prototype design synthesis capability for space access vehicle design

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