Transonic wing flutter predictions by a loosely-coupled method

Abstract This paper presents transonic wing flutter predictions by coupling Euler/Navier–Stokes equations and structural modal equations. This coupling between Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Computational Structural Dynamics (CSD) is achieved through a Multi-Disciplinary Computing Environment (MDICE), which allows several computer codes or ‘modules’ to communicate in a highly efficient fashion. The present approach offers the advantage of utilizing well-established single-disciplinary codes in a multi-disciplinary framework. The flow solver is density-based for modeling compressible, turbulent flow problems using structured and/or unstructured grids. A modal approach is employed for the structural response. Flutter predictions performed on an AGARD 445.6 wing at different Mach numbers are presented and compared with experimental data.

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