The IDA project is exploring blended wing shapes for maximizing volume for an input airfoil.  Many sources are feeding this exploration, most of which are directly or indirectly referenced from the Library.    Current work is developing parameters and methods.

Current work is stacking airfoil sections on their geometric centroids from root to tip, maximizing wing volume as bounded by the corresponding Sears-Haack volume.  The difference between the wing and the ideal volume will be filled for a blended wing configuration.  Future work will improve on the method of airfoil section stacking in favor of a neutral pitching moment due to lift.

The proposed parametric space (airfoil section, and root and tip chords) is simple and intuitive.  If found to be effective, then scalable versions of our Sagittarius craft will be defined as airfoils.

The IDA computation will produce a mesh for input into development processes.

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