Title:
A Probabilistic Approach to UCAV Engine Sizing

dc.contributor.author Roth, Bryce Alexander en_US
dc.contributor.author Mavris, Dimitri N. en_US
dc.contributor.author Elliott, Don en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory
dc.date.accessioned 2005-05-26T13:59:55Z
dc.date.available 2005-05-26T13:59:55Z
dc.date.issued 1998-07 en_US
dc.description Presented at the 34th Joint Propulsion Conference, Cleveland, OH, July 13-15, 1998. en_US
dc.description.abstract This paper describes a probabilistic approach to aircraft engine thrust sizing which is intended to assist the designer in making decisions during the very early stages of the design process when the operational concept is still evolving and uncertainty abounds (in both mission requirements and technological capability). The focus of this paper is on analysis of mission uncertainty such as that due to ambiguity in payload, range, maneuver requirements, etc. and its impact on propulsion system sizing. Several analysis tools appropriate for probabilistic thrust sizing are discussed and one is applied to the probabilistic thrust sizing of an unmanned combat aerial vehicle designed for a deep-strike mission. The result is a distribution for thrust which can then be used in combination with the core engine design space to estimate the design? probability of successfully meeting the thrust requirements. Finally, a method for tracking mission uncertainty as the requirements develop is described and illustrated for the UCAV example. en_US
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dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/6275
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.publisher.original American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
dc.relation.ispartofseries ASDL;AIAA-98-3264 en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries ASDL;AIAA-98-3264
dc.subject Probabilistic design en_US
dc.subject Unmanned aerial vehicles en_US
dc.subject Combat aircraft en_US
dc.subject Aircraft engines en_US
dc.subject Sizing tools en_US
dc.subject Early phases of design en_US
dc.subject Modeling of uncertainty en_US
dc.subject Propulsion systems en_US
dc.title A Probabilistic Approach to UCAV Engine Sizing en_US
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dc.type.genre Paper
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local.contributor.author Mavris, Dimitri N.
local.contributor.corporatename Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL)
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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