Numerical Study of the Influence of Dynamic Pressure and Deflected Ailerons on the Deformation of a High Speed Wing Model

Fluid-Structure Coupling for Aerodynamic Analysis and Design: A DLR Perspective (Invited)

“…As a first verification test case for the TAU-ANSYS process chain the rectangular swept reference wing of a German aeroelastic research program conducted at the Technical University of Aachen 22 has been selected. For this configuration the DLR FLOWer-Code coupled with a Timoshenko beam model was successfully validated by the Mechanics Department of the Technical University of Aachen during the last years, see for example 23,2 The wing, shown in Figure 15 has a span of 1.5m and a sweep angle of 45°. Based on the characteristics of the beam model provided by the Aachen University, a FEM model was created which can be used by the structural analysis solver ANSYS.…”

“…Based on the characteristics of the beam model provided by the Aachen University, a FEM model was created which can be used by the structural analysis solver ANSYS. Coupled TAU-ANSYS computations were performed and the results were crosschecked with validated results of Ballmann et al 2,22 . In both computations the same block-structured CFD mesh was used.…”

The MEGAFLOW Project — Numerical Flow Simulation for Aircraft

“…On the other hand the aero-elastic equilibrium was determined by a fluid/structure coupling. For this calculation the coupling procedure of the University of Aachen (Lehr und Forschungsgebiet fr Mechanik) was used [8]. It is based on the FLOWer-Code for the fluid and a beam model for the structure.…”