X31 Aircraft Configuration


The X31 is an experimental aircraft developed to test ultra-high maneuverability via the use of thrust vectoring. The aircraft is a supersonic aircraft with canards instead of a horizontal tail to control the pitch of the aircraft. The geometry modeled includes the wings, fuselage, tail, canards, engine inlet and the engine outlet.

ViewMesh
Surface Mesh
Hybrid Mesh - Isometric View
Hybrid Mesh - Planar View



The final grid contains:
   996834 Total Nodes
  2670521 Total Elements
  1536906 Prisms
    21989 Pyramids
  1111626 Tetrahedra
   107257 Total Boundary Faces
      380 Panels
       15 Boundary Groups
           23126 faces in group:  Fuselage
            1799 faces in group:  Farfield
           15105 faces in group:  Symmetry
            7176 faces in group:  Canard
             636 faces in group:  Canopy
            7336 faces in group:  Vertical Tail
            5852 faces in group:  Horizontal Half Tail
             309 faces in group:  Engine Outlet
             627 faces in group:  Engine Outlet Passage
             157 faces in group:  Engine Inlet
            4361 faces in group:  Engine Inlet Passage
            4768 faces in group:  Inboard Hardpoint
            4621 faces in group:  Outboard Hardpoint
           24879 faces in group:  Wing
            6505 faces in group:  Forewing