Roles and Responsibilities: The candidate shall
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Plan, accomplish, lead and support activities involving aerodynamic sizing of fixed wing UAVs in the conceptual design phase. The activities include but not limited to the following:
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Perform market survey and constraint analysis
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Select an aerofoil and planform for the UAV
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Size the UAV external geometry and evaluate the aerodynamic characteristics using lower order tools
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Estimate the performance and evaluate the stability
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Perform and support activities of aerodynamic evaluation of fixed wing UAVs during the preliminary design phase
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Plan and execute tasks
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Carry out the design trade studies
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Generate aerodynamic data required to support other systems like Flight controls, avionics systems, etc.
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Perform optimisation studies on aerofoil or component of aircraft
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Support activities involved in aeroelastic problems
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Perform Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT) simulations
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Support activities involved in wind tunnel testing
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Perform CFD analyses of fixed wing UAVs to evaluate aerodynamic performance
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Establish processes for conducting CFD analyses
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Model geometry for CFD analyses in a CAD tool
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Prepare geometry for CFD analyses from CAD geometry
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Generate good quality grids
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Generate results using appropriate solver settings with limited time frames and resources
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Post-process the results and document the same in detail
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Recommend suggestions to design team based on the results generated
