Walter A. Silva, Pawel Chwalowski, Carol D. Wieseman, Donald F. Keller, David Eller, Ulf Ringertz
DOI Number: N/A
Conference number: IFASD-2017-180
A status report is provided on the collaboration between the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and the NASA Langley Research Center regarding the aeroelastic analyses of a full-span fighter configuration wind-tunnel model. This wind-tunnel model was tested in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel in the summer of 2016. Large amounts of data were acquired including steady/unsteady pressures, accelerations, strains, and measured dynamic deformations. The aeroelastic analyses presented include linear aeroelastic analyses, CFD steady analyses, and analyses using CFD-based reduced-order models. The reduced-order model results also include a comparison of the aeroelastic response of the model in free air and in a computational mesh of the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel in order to determine, computationally, the effects of the wind tunnel on the aeroelastic response.