Aircraft Design Tools for PC's

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Olson, Timothy D., author.

Conference Name:

General, Corporate & Regional Aviation Meeting & Exposition (1997-04-29 : Wichita, Kansas, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1997

Summary:

Recent technology advancements in hardware and software has allowed the emergence of the PC as a cost effective aircraft design/analysis platform. Software packages such as CSI-CADD, Vellum Solids, and AeroPack provide "Lockheed" class modeling tools for a wide variety of design projects. Modeling tools for airfoils, wings, and polyconic surfaces are discussed as well as data extraction methods for wetted areas, volumes, centroids, area curves, obscuration plots, meshing, and custom interfaces to design analysis programs such as GA-CAD

Notes:

Vendor supplied data

Publisher Number:

971474

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license