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A cfd/csd interaction methodology for aircraft wings
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Bhardwaj, Manoj K. |
| Copyright Year | 1997 |
| Description | With advanced subsonic transports and military aircraft operating in the transonic regime, it is becoming important to determine the effects of the coupling between aerodynamic loads and elastic forces. Since aeroelastic effects can contribute significantly to the design of these aircraft, there is a strong need in the aerospace industry to predict these aero-structure interactions computationally. To perform static aeroelastic analysis in the transonic regime, high fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis tools must be used in conjunction with high fidelity computational structural fluid dynamics (CSD) analysis tools due to the nonlinear behavior of the aerodynamics in the transonic regime. There is also a need to be able to use a wide variety of CFD and CSD tools to predict these aeroelastic effects in the transonic regime. Because source codes are not always available, it is necessary to couple the CFD and CSD codes without alteration of the source codes. In this study, an aeroelastic coupling procedure is developed which will perform static aeroelastic analysis using any CFD and CSD code with little code integration. The aeroelastic coupling procedure is demonstrated on an F/A-18 Stabilator using NASTD (an in-house McDonnell Douglas CFD code) and NASTRAN. In addition, the Aeroelastic Research Wing (ARW-2) is used for demonstration of the aeroelastic coupling procedure by using ENSAERO (NASA Ames Research Center CFD code) and a finite element wing-box code (developed as part of this research). |
| File Size | 5457731 |
| Page Count | 211 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19970041037 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t4qk2bx3q |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1997-10-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aerodynamics Dynamic Response Dynamic Structural Analysis Finite Element Method Computational Fluid Dynamics Nastran Aeroelasticity Nonlinear Systems Aerospace Industry Aerodynamic Loads Loads Forces Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Thesis |