Conceptual Aircraft Design Methodology for Disaster Relief Operations with a Variable Fidelity Interface

Abstract

The target of the thesis is to develop conceptual design capabilities for cargo aircraft in humanitarian areas of operation. The work is based on DLR's inhouse aircraft design tool openAD. The software has to be modified from commercial passenger to cargo transport purposes, and make the cargo dimensions and masses driving the parametrized conceptual aircraft design. Therefore, a reference aircraft is redesigned and calibrated on the geometrical, mass and performance level. The implemented methods are validated by a suitable design of experiment.