Roles and Responsibilities: The candidate shall

- 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:
- Perform market survey and constraint analysis
- Select an aerofoil and planform for the UAV
- Size the UAV external geometry and evaluate the aerodynamic characteristics using lower order tools
- Estimate the performance and evaluate the stability

- Perform and support activities of aerodynamic evaluation of fixed wing UAVs during the preliminary design phase
- Plan and execute tasks
- Carry out the design trade studies
- Generate aerodynamic data required to support other systems like Flight controls, avionics systems, etc.
- Perform optimisation studies on aerofoil or component of aircraft




- Support activities involved in aeroelastic problems
- Perform Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT) simulations
- Support activities involved in wind tunnel testing

- Perform CFD analyses of fixed wing UAVs to evaluate aerodynamic performance
- Establish processes for conducting CFD analyses
- Model geometry for CFD analyses in a CAD tool
- Prepare geometry for CFD analyses from CAD geometry
- Generate positive quality grids
- Generate results using appropriate solver settings with limited time frames and resources
- Post-process the results and document the same in detail
- Recommend suggestions to design team based on the results generated

📌 Lead Engineer I - Aerodynamics (India)
🏢 Newspace
📍 India