Aerodynamic design assessment and comparisons of the MULDICON UCAV concept

This article describes the aerodynamic design and assessment of a UCAV wing developed under the NATO-STO AVT-251 Multi-disciplinary Design Task Group. The wing design rationale and process is described, as well as how the idealized wing design produced by the design/optimization process is turned into a realizable aircraft geometry. Both the baseline and designed wings are analyzed in detail using several Navier-Stokes computational fluid...