Computational aeroelasticity

Computational aeroelasticity

Objectives

Support

This project is supported by the DOE-sponsored Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets.

People involved in this project

Heath Dewey, MS student in AE
Rajeev Jaiman, PhD student in AE
M. Scot Breitenfeld, research programmer at CSAR
Professor Eric Loth, faculty member in AE
Professor Balachandar, faculty member in MIE
Dr. Andreas Haselbacher, research scientist at CSAR
Dr. X. "Jim" Jiao, research scientist at CSAR (currently at Georgia Tech)

For more information:

Jaiman, R. K., Jiao, X., Geubelle, P. H. and Loth, E. (2005) “Assessment of conservative load transfer for fluid-solid interface with non-matching meshes”. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Eng., 64, 2014-2038.
Jaiman, R. K., Jiao, X., Geubelle, P. H. and Loth, E. (2005) “Conservative load transfer along curved fluid-solid interface with non-matching meshes”. Submitted to J. Computational Physics.

Illustrative results

Click here to see a short animation of the evolution of the pressure field on a twisting NACA airfoil.

The following seven slides, taken from a CSAR poster presented in October 2005, summarize some recent results of the comparative assessment of load transfer schemes along curved fluid/structure interfaces with non-matching discretizations. The key emphasis of this analysis is to determine the effect of the curvature in the error associated with the load transfer.