Aircraft Studio

Author

Marius Peter

Email

mpeter@ucla.edu

This program enables the creation of NACA airfoils; the analysis of the airfoil's structural properties; the optimization via genetic algorithm of a population of airfoils; With the final objective of designing a lightweight FAR 23 compliant airfoil.

I adapted it from my own code for the UCLA MAE 154B final project (Spring 2019).

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Program Structure

=creator.py=

This module enables the creation of discrete aircraft components.

=evaluator.py=

=generator.py=

The generator module contains classes describing aircrafts comprised of sufficient creator components that they can be fed to the evaluator for useful analysis.

Program Flow

1. Create an evaluator object 2. Populate the evaluator with aircrafts by either: 1. Using generator methods to create an aircraft from a template 2. Using creator to manually describe all aircraft components 3. Use evaluator methods to: 1. Calculate relevant aircraft properties 2. Set desired optimization parameter(s) 3. Execute the genetic algoritm and return an optimized aircraft