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Stephen Hu Deployment Vehicle Selection Helicopter Design Hours Worked: 98

Team Member. Stephen Hu Deployment Vehicle Selection Helicopter Design Hours Worked: 98. Helicopter Design. Introduction General Characteristics Constraints Deployment Conclusions Recommendations. 2. Introduction. Investigation of the surface and lakes of Titan VTOL capability

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Stephen Hu Deployment Vehicle Selection Helicopter Design Hours Worked: 98

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  1. Team Member Stephen Hu Deployment Vehicle Selection Helicopter Design Hours Worked: 98 Stephen Hu

  2. Helicopter Design • Introduction • General Characteristics • Constraints • Deployment • Conclusions • Recommendations Stephen Hu 2

  3. Introduction • Investigation of the surface and lakes of Titan • VTOL capability • Dependable performance in hostile environments • Able to last four months under constant operation

  4. Constraints • Environment • Temperature • Wind • Solar Energy • Atmospheric Density • Volume/Storage • Diameter of Heat Shield • Airship Storage Stephen Hu

  5. General Characteristics Vehicle: Helicopter Type: Coaxial Number of Blades per rotor: 2 blades Airfoil: NACA 0012 Stephen Hu

  6. Deployment • Post-Airship Separation • Generator startup • Freefall rotor startup • Heat Shield separation Stephen Hu

  7. Mass and Power Constraints Stephen Hu

  8. Blade Radius vs. Power Required Stephen Hu

  9. Forward Velocity vs. Power Required Stephen Hu

  10. Conclusions Stephen Hu

  11. Recommendations • More in-depth aerodynamic design • Materials • Payload • Deployment Stephen Hu

  12. References • "The Vertical Profile of Winds on Titan." www.nature.com. 8 Dec. 2005. Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science. <http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7069/full/nature04060.html>. • Wright, Henry S. Design of a Long Endurance Titan VTOL Vehicle. Georgia Institute of Technology. <https://wiki.umn.edu/pub/titanedd/deployment/vtol_design_paper.pdf>. • Leishman, Gordon. Principles of Helicopter Aerodynamics. Cambridge UP, 2006. Stephen Hu

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