Automated Airfoil Table Generation for VTOL Aircraft

The design and development of VTOL air vehicles, especially AAM, is making rapid progress with numerous innovative configurations. The industry is, however, facing serious challenges in achieving its goal toward affordable high performance/low noise VTOL that can be timely certified for operation. Design and analysis of modern VTOL has been a major hurdle due to extremely high computational demands. Comprehensive rotorcraft analysis tools are widely used for VTOL design and analysis. To manage costs, comprehensive tools use C81 airfoil tables for quick turnaround. Hence, the ability to quickly and accurately generate C81 tables is vital. The proposed work aims at creating a high fidelity airfoil table generator to effectively support VTOL design. The tool to be developed will be versatile in terms of supporting the unique requirements of VTOL design and analysis. The tool will also be streamlined, efficient, automated along with a friendly graphical user interface.