Print Email Facebook Twitter Preliminary Propulsion System Design and Integration for a Box-Wing Aircraft Configuration Title Preliminary Propulsion System Design and Integration for a Box-Wing Aircraft Configuration: A Knowledge Based Engineering Approach Author Proesmans, Pieter-Jan (TU Delft Aerospace Engineering) Contributor la Rocca, Gianfranco (mentor) Elmendorp, Reno (mentor) Veldhuis, Leo (mentor) van Zuijlen, Alexander (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Aerospace Engineering Project PARSIFAL Date 2019-12-13 Abstract The design and integration of the propulsion system is known to be an interesting, multi-disciplinary challenge in aircraft design projects. Especially for new aircraft configurations, it is important to gain a lot of knowledge in the preliminary design stages. An example of such an unconventional configuration is the box-wing aircraft examined by the PARSIFAL project. Therefore, a Knowledge Based Engineering approach towards engine design and integration is developed in this thesis. This new approach allows to consider the propulsion discipline in multi-disciplinary design and analysis routines. By employing the ParaPy software, the complete aircraft geometry can be created and subsequently subjected to aerodynamic analyses in VSAERO. The developed tools are validated and employed to explore the design space offered by a closed-wing arrangement. Based on this exploration, a turbofan system and installation location are recommended for the PARSIFAL aircraft. Subject Knowledge Based EngineeringTurbofanAircraft designNacelle DesignPARSIFALGSPPropulsion system To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0d2ebc46-09ee-493f-bb4c-c871133bff6f Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2019 Pieter-Jan Proesmans Files PDF MSc_Thesis_Pieter_Jan_Proesmans.pdf 5.97 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0d2ebc46-09ee-493f-bb4c-c871133bff6f/datastream/OBJ/view