Objectives to be achieved by this invention are the provision of a method
for determining the ultimate fuselage shape of supersonic aircraft by
integral modification of the upper and lower surface shapes of the
fuselage, to reduce sonic boom without increasing wave drag, as well as
the provision of such a fuselage front section shape. A method for
determining the fuselage shape of an aircraft for supersonic flight of
this invention employs different methods of determining the fuselage
lower-surface shape and the fuselage upper-surface shape, whose upper and
lower boundary is defined for each fuselage cross-section by the
horizontal line including two points at which the fuselage width from the
bilateral symmetry plane is maximum. The above fuselage lower-surface
shape is determined by optimization of an objective function to minimize
the pressure increase amount of the sonic boom pressure waveform on the
ground, estimated using a panel method and waveform parameter method; the
fuselage upper-surface shape is determined by optimization of an
objective function so as to minimize drag, estimated using a panel
method.