Within the AVT-201 Task Group a comprehensive research program has been designed to assess the ability to
accurately predict both static and dynamic stability characteristics of air vehicles using Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) methods which could revolutionize the air vehicle design process, especially for military air
vehicles. A validated CFD capability would significantly reduce the number of ground tests required to verify
vehicle concepts, and in general, could eliminate costly vehicle ‘repair’ campaigns required to fix performance
anomalies that were not adequately predicted prior to full-scale vehicle development. The AVT-201 Task Group
established an extended integrated experimental and numerical approach to assess the performance and
accuracy of stability and control prediction methods as well as the ability to design and estimate the
effectiveness of control devices for highly swept low observable UCAV configurations. The aim of the AVT-201
Task Group was to provide an assessment of the CFD capabilities using model-scale experiments and
transferring this knowledge to real-scale application