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41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

DOI: 10.2514/6.2003-554

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Aerodynamics of High-Subsonic Blended-Wing-Body Configurations

Journal article published in 2003 by Dino Roman, Richard Gilmore, Sean Wakayama
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Abstract

A Mach 0.93 Blended-Wing-Body (BWB) configuration was developed using CFL3DV6, a Navier-Stokes computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, in conjunction with the Wing Multidisciplinary Optimization Design (WingMOD) code, to determine the feasibility of BWB aircraft at high subsonic speeds. Excluding an assessment of propulsion airframe interference, the results show that a Mach 0.93 BWB is feasible, although it pays a performance penalty relative to Mach 0.85 designs. A Mach 0.90 BWB may be the best solution in terms of offering improved speed with minimal performance penalty.