Patent ID: 8280663
Filing Date: 2012-10-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-aided method for designing aircraft mobile surfaces comprising calculating on a computer the position of said mobile surfaces as it moves through a fluid medium, which is affected by at least an upstream or downstream object component, for achieving a predetermined value Vo of a predetermined object performance target, said calculation including the following steps: a) preparing a computer-implemented computational fluid dynamics model of said object having said mobile surface in a first position; b) solving said model and obtaining the value Vi of said object performance target in said first position; c) if the difference between Vi and Vo is greater than a predetermined value, modifying said model changing the position of the mobile surface in said model and iterating step b) and applying the results obtained to the design of said aircraft mobile surface and displaying a computer-generated depiction of said aircraft mobile surface designed in accordance with said steps a)-c).