Bernd Stickan, Reik Thormann, Michael Wrightson, Paolo Mastracci, Thomas Wilson
DOI Number: N/A
Conference number: IFASD-2024-169
This paper proposes a method to combine dynamic aerodynamic and structural data at different steady conditions to allow a p-k-based flutter process for constant mass and Mach. The full aircraft application case with aspect ratio 17 is used to show the relevance of mass- and altitude-dependent unsteady aerodynamics, but it also shows that for a relatively flexible wing nonlinear structural effects cannot be neglected. For the aerodynamic modelling, linearised RANS CFD aerodynamics are used. A detailed FEM is employed for structural modelling, which is deformed according to the steady conditions to cover geometric nonlinearities in the flutter process.