AVL: Aerodynamic Analysis, Trim Calculation, Dynamic Stability Analysis and Aircraft Configuration Development

Principal Investigator Mark Drela

Co-investigator Karen Willcox

Project Website http://web.mit.edu/drela/Public/web/avl/

AVL is a program for the aerodynamic and flight-dynamic analysis of rigid aircraft of arbitrary configuration. It employs an extended vortex lattice model for the lifting surfaces, together with a slender-body model for fuselages and nacelles. General nonlinear flight states can be specified. The flight dynamic analysis combines a full linearization of the aerodynamic model about any flight state, together with specified mass properties.