DEPARTMENT OF AEROSPACE AND OCEAN ENGINEERING

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS AND DESIGN CENTER

Blended Wing Body Design Group
Private BWB Research Pages 


 

Different Propulsion Concepts

Blended Wing Body (BWB) with pylon-mounted engines (left) and boundary layer ingested inlets (right)(pics. from Boeing)

 

BWB with large amount of engines distributed along the span (from Mechanical Engineering, 2002)

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    Publications and presentations

    Thesis/Dissertations

  • Vance Dippold, July 2003, M.Sc.,"Numerical Assessment of the Performance of Jet-Wing Distributed Propulsion on Blended-Wing-Body Aircraft" [PDF format, 4.7 MB]
  • Yan-Yee Andy Ko, April 2003, Ph.D.,"The Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Distributed Propulsion Blende-Wing-Body" [PDF format, 22.4 MB]


    • Conference Papers

  • "Modeling of Airframe Noise Appropriate for MDO", 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, Paper No. AIAA-2004-0698, January 2004
  • "Analysis of Jet-Wing Distributed Propulsion From Thick Wing Trailing Edges", 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, Paper No. AIAA-2004-1205, January 2004
  • "MDO of a Blended-Wing-Body Transport Aircraft with Distributed Propulsion", 3rd AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations (ATIO) Technical Forum, Denver, CO, Paper No. AIAA-2003-6732, November 2003
  • "Assessment of the Potential Advantages of Distributed Propulsion for Aircraft", XVIth International Symposium on Air Breathing Engines (ISABE), Cleveland, OH, Paper 2003-1094, Aug. 31-Sept. 5, 2003


    • Presentations

  • Center for Turbomachinery and Propulsion Research Meeting, 5th of November 2003 [PDF format]
  • NASA visitors meeting, 29th of October 2003
  • LaRC six month review meeting presentation [Powerpoint format] [Adobe Acrobat format]
  • LaRC first year review meeting presentation [Powerpoint format]
  • Presentation for Dr. Thomas, June 19, 2003 [Adobe Acrobat format]


    • Other

  • A paper describing the BWB concept [PDF format]

    • Blended-Wing-Body Bibliography

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