High Fidelity Aero Servo Elastic Analysis for Full Configurations in a Modular Computational Environment

Over the last few years the United States Air Force has invested in nonlinear analysis capabilities that can be applied to complete aircraft simulations. Due to the risk associated with the development of new platforms that may push the restrictive boundaries of linear analysis tools the Nonlinear MEthods in Design and Analysis (NMEDA) program was introduced to better understand the impact that these nonlinearities have in a vehicles response. Specifically SensorCraft configurations, such as the joined wing and flying wing, are being considered as initial test cases. The following paper discusses the validation effort that has gone along with making AFRL’s in house unstructured CFD solver AVUS aeroelastic capable. It also presents the current work being done to improve or introduce capability for full configuration simulations of free flying vehicles.

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