The complexity of aircraft design problems increases with many objectives and diverse
constraints, thus necessitating effective optimization techniques. In recent years many new …

The aim of this paper is to present the most common practices in multidisciplinary design
optimization (MDO) of aerial vehicles over the past decade. The literature sample is …

The reliability optimisation methodology is developed to solve a conceptual design problem
of a fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The reliability quantification is based on the …

The development of novel aircraft concepts and propulsion technologies requires up-to-date
physics-based methods and tools for conceptual aircraft design. In this context, a simulation …

Aircraft design relies on accurate aerodynamic predictions. High-fidelity (HF) methods, such
as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), provide accurate aerodynamic analyses but are …

Low-fidelity analytical models are often used at the conceptual aircraft design stage.
Because of uncertainties on these models and their corresponding input variables …

This article proposes an approach to quantify and manage uncertainty in the conceptual
design of aerial vehicles. A growing number of aerial vehicles, such as unmanned aerial …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to study the consideration of uncertainty from analysis
modules for aircraft conceptual design by implementing uncertainty-based design …

This paper describes a possibility-based multidisciplinary optimisation for electric-powered
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) design. An in-house integrated UAV (iUAV) analysis …

A new proposal for formulating reliability-based design optimization problems, named the
multistage reliability-based design optimization approach, is presented. The classical …