Complete Configuration Aero-Structural Optimization Using a Coupled Sensitivity Analysis Method

Abstract : This paper focuses on the demonstration of a new integrated aero-structural design method for aerospace vehicles. The approach combines an aero-structural analysis solver, a coupled aero-structural adjoint solver, a geometry-based analysis and design integration strategy, and an efficient gradient-based optimization algorithm. The aero-structural solver ensures highly accurate solutions by using high-fidelity models for both disciplines as well as a high-fidelity coupling procedure. The Euler equations are solved for the aerodynamics and a detailed finite element model is used for the primary structure. The coupled aero-structural adjoint solution is used to calculate the needed sensitivities of aerodynamic and structural cost functions with respect to both aerodynamic shape and

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