A new method for modeling the interaction of an aerofoil with a gust using a prescribed
velocity approach, called the split velocity method is presented. This approach effectively …

As the desire for more flexible aircraft structures increases, so does the need to incorporate
the intrinsic nonlinearities in their aeroelastic analyses. In that manner, it becomes essential …

Predicting gust loads using computational fluid dynamics is prohibitively expensive and
unrealistic for parametric searches. This work presents the development, implementation …

This work investigates the effects of control input time delay on closed-loop transonic
computational aeroelastic analysis. Control input time delays are becoming critical as the …

A unified modelling approach, using computational fluid dynamics, to calculate the flutter
stability and dynamic gust response of realistic aircraft models is outlined. The approach …

This paper describes an experimental study involving the implementation of the method of
receptances to control binary flutter in a wind-tunnel aerofoil rig. The aerofoil and its …

Multidisciplinary simulation involving flight dynamics and computational fluid dynamics is
required for high-fidelity gust loads analysis in transonic flow. However, the main limitation to …

Time domain gust response analysis based on large order nonlinear aeroelastic models is
computationally expensive. An approach to the reduction of nonlinear models for gust …

Gust load alleviation using computational fluid dynamics as source of the aerodynamic
predictions is carried out in the time domain. To this goal, an aeroservoelastic reduced-order …

The time domain solution of a chaotic system governed by a set of nonlinear equations is
computationally expensive and ill suited for parametric searches. This work investigates the …