Paper Info
Title
Blended Wing Body Architecting and Design: Current Status and Future Prospects.
Abstract
Fixed-wing aircraft are viewed as no longer satisfying our needs today. In the past ten years, fuel efficiency and noise reduction have become the two biggest challenges for aircraft manufacturers. The recognition spurred aerospace engineers and system architects to come up with the Blended Wing Body (BWB), a new design for next generation aircraft. In this paper, we discuss the development of BWB from the perspective of design challenges that system architects and engineers faced during the design process, the architecting heuristics employed, and the rationale for design decision. In addition, body material and shape selection procedures, flight simulation, design optimization, and the advantages of the resultant design are also addressed. Thereafter, we look down the line and discuss the evaluation of emergence technologies on BWB aircraft subsystems, and a model for evaluating technology upgrade.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.procs.2014.03.075
Procedia Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Blended Wing Body,Systems Architecting,Hyperion Project
Noise reduction,Aerospace,Systems engineering,Computer science,Heuristics,Flight simulator,Artificial intelligence,Engineering design process,Fuel efficiency,Wing,Simulation,Upgrade,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
28
1877-0509
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Edwin Ordoukhanian101.01
Azad M. Madni218834.57