Aircraft Parametric 3d Modeling and Panel Code Analysis

The ever fast growing information technology is enabling a re-definition of the early stages of aircraft design which have been restricted to mostly statistical and empirical approaches because of lengthy and costly simulation times. A novel framework is being developed at Linköping University offering greater comprehension by enabling a holistic view of the aircraft systems with a multidisciplinary analysis approach, involving a centralized easy to use interface. This paper will depict the modules involving an aerodynamic panel code solver integrated to a parametric CAD model. The connection between these tools is made fully automatic, meaning that any modification on the CAD model will with a press of button be aerodynamically analyzed in the panel solver, including re-meshing and rewriting of a input file and finally re-distributing the output file to all other modules involved in the framework.