3.9. Aircraft

Codes: aircraft.py

3.9.1. Supersonic aircraft

Generate a supersonic aircraft, including the fuselage, wing and v-tail. The surfaces are smoothed to ensure the validity of the sonic boom prediction.

A new class Fuselage is defined to build the fuselage. It is a subclass of BasicSurface, and the major difference is that the ‘span-wise’ direction is changed from the z direction to the x direction. In consequence, the 3D section profile is in y-z plane.

Figure 3.9.1 Supersonic aircraft based on the Lockheed Martin 1021 test case