Toward Real-Time Computational-Fluid-Dynamics-Based Aeroelastic Computations Using a Database of Reduced-Order Information

This paper describes a computational-fluid-dynamics-based computational methodology for fast on-demand aeroelastic predictions of the behavior of a full aircraft configuration at variable flight conditions and demonstrates its feasibility. The methodology relies on the offline precomputation of a database of reduced-order bases and models associated with a discrete set of flight parameters, and its training for an interpolation method suitable for reduced-order information. The potential of this near-real-time computational methodology for assisting flutter flight testing is highlighted with the aeroelastic identification of an F-16 configuration in the subsonic, transonic, and supersonic regimes.

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