VizCraft: a problem-solving environment for aircraft configuration design

Author

Goel, Amit ; Baker, Chuck A. ; Shaffer, Clifford A. ; Grossman, Bernard ; Mason, William H. ; Watson, Layne T. ; Haftka, Raphael T.

Author_Institution

Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

Volume

3

Issue

1

fYear

2001

Firstpage

56

Lastpage

66

Abstract

The VizCraft problem-solving environment aids aircraft designers during conceptual design of a high-speed civil transport (HSCT). It integrates simulation codes that evaluate a design with visualizations for analyzing a design individually or in contrast to other designs. VizCraft provides a graphical user interface to a widely used suite of simulation and analysis codes for HSCT design, and it provides tools for visualizing the outputs of these codes. So, VizCraft provides an environment that combines visualization and computation, encouraging the designer to think in terms of the overall problem-solving task, not simply using the visualization to view the computation´s results

Keywords

CAD; aircraft computers; data visualisation; digital simulation; graphical user interfaces; HSCT; VizCraft; aircraft configuration design; aircraft designers; conceptual design; graphical user interface; high-speed civil transport; problem-solving environment; problem-solving task; simulation codes; Aerodynamics; Aircraft propulsion; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Data visualization; Geometry; Graphical user interfaces; Multidimensional systems; Problem-solving; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computing in Science & Engineering

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1521-9615

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/5992.895188

Filename

895188