A multifidelity approach to aerodynamic analysis in an integrated design environment

Within the context of the multi-disciplinary aircraft design optimization, a multi-fidelity approach has been formulated and described which allows the aerodynamic analysis of a complete wing. Some preliminary results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the methodology to achieve a good approximation of the results with an important reduction of the calculation time through the use of data-fit surrogate models, and the application of global and local corrections.

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