2023-11-01 Meeting notes

Flight tests

Nathan Green

Pegasus flight test this weekend with (almost) full sensor suite.

Gathering vibration and harmonics data, setting up notch filtering and tuning

Electronics Cases/Mounts

Nathan Green

• VTX Case

• Monster mount

Frame

Conall Kingshott

No updates on this since last meeting.

Cabin

Alison Thompson

Things are looking good, I would like to flesh out a timeline for deadlines so we can get manufacturing the first revision, do we want to do this here or in a seprate meeting?

Is two weeks (Nov 15th) or next week (Nov 8 ) too ambitous? This only needs to include skeleton, first rev of aero-panels, and aero-panel mounts. thoughts?

• Evan Janakievski Any updates? Skeleton

• Sohee Yoon Aero-Panel Mounting

• Georgia Vachon Westerlund Ran CFD simulations this week. Full details: Aero-Panels | Date: 2023/10/27

  • Control block (REV 3) with new cabin dimensions:

    • Drag coefficient = 0.8435494

  • Control block (REV 4) with cabin length of 320 mm:

    • Drag coefficient = 0.83095675

  • Block with 20-deg panel bend:

    • Drag coefficient = 0.8006426

  • Block with 30-deg panel bend:

    • Drag coefficient = 0.59192724

  • Results/conclusions:

    • Larger bend angle = more drag reduction

    • All lift coefficients negligible

  • Future steps:

    • Currently running sims with bend angle of 10 degrees and 40 degrees to verify conclusions

    • Explore other options to reduce drag? 2-dimensional front/rear panel bend?

    • Start figuring out the integration with the mounting method - will connect with Sohee Yoon

• Jason Li Seat CAD started, hopefully can have CAD of seats done by next week Seats !

• Wallace Lee any updates Cargo Compartment ?

• Need a task for Aric Quan

Ansys

Smile Khatri

• Prof. Teertstra contacted student design teams to see if anyone is interested in getting access to Ansys Learning Hub for 6 months (FREE)

• Ansys Learning Hub is basically a platform where you can enroll in courses that teach how to use Ansys software for various simulations(fluent, static, etc.)

• If interested, send a message in #mech-simulation which includes your first and last name, and your UWaterloo email