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A simplified mesh deformation method using commercial structural analysis software
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Chang, Chau-Lyan Hsu, Su-Yuen Samareh, Jamshid |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Description | Mesh deformation in response to redefined or moving aerodynamic surface geometries is a frequently encountered task in many applications. Most existing methods are either mathematically too complex or computationally too expensive for usage in practical design and optimization. We propose a simplified mesh deformation method based on linear elastic finite element analyses that can be easily implemented by using commercially available structural analysis software. Using a prescribed displacement at the mesh boundaries, a simple structural analysis is constructed based on a spatially varying Young s modulus to move the entire mesh in accordance with the surface geometry redefinitions. A variety of surface movements, such as translation, rotation, or incremental surface reshaping that often takes place in an optimization procedure, may be handled by the present method. We describe the numerical formulation and implementation using the NASTRAN software in this paper. The use of commercial software bypasses tedious reimplementation and takes advantage of the computational efficiency offered by the vendor. A two-dimensional airfoil mesh and a three-dimensional aircraft mesh were used as test cases to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Euler and Navier-Stokes calculations were performed for the deformed two-dimensional meshes. |
| File Size | 6555428 |
| Page Count | 33 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20040110950 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t2g78br04 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2004-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Numerical Analysis Navier-stokes Equation Finite Element Method Deformation Control Surfaces Aerodynamics Airfoils Displacement Design Optimization Structural Analysis Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
