• Dr. Timothy Takahashi
  • Santa Clara University
  • 1060 Torgersen Hall
  • 10:05 a.m.

This seminar will discuss several technology and design issues that impact the design of future commercial aviation, as well as military transport, strike, and combat aircraft. It will discuss:


1. How visualization of mission performance parameters as "point-performance" reveals how the actual, realizable performance of an airframe may be substantially lower than that implied by its peak aerodynamic efficiency, L/D.
2. How propulsion system loads and losses (that affect thrust levels) may have unintended consequences upon mission performance.
3. How using a true mission performance code (not Breguet’s equation) coupled to an aerodynamic thickness allocation scheme coupled to a medium-fidelity structural weight prediction scheme to perform a multi-disciplinary study reveals that the most aerodynamically favorable designs have the best system performance.