Flexible Engineering Toward Green Aircraft

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Designing the Next Generation of Aircraft with Simulation

   • Paolo Colombo

   Pages 1-7

3. Aeroelastic Wind Tunnel Tests of the RIBES Wing Model

   • F. Nicolosi, V. Cusati, D. Ciliberti, Pierluigi Della Vecchia, S. Corcione

   Pages 9-28

4. Validation of High Fidelity Computational Methods for Aeronautical FSI Analyses

   • Corrado Groth, Marco Evangelos Biancolini, Emiliano Costa, Ubaldo Cella

   Pages 29-48

5. High-Fidelity Static Aeroelastic Simulations of the Common Research Model

   • Jan Navrátil

   Pages 49-70

6. Aero-elastic Simulations Using the NSMB CFD Solver Including results for a Strut Braced Wing Aircraft

   • J. B. Vos, D. Charbonnier, T. Ludwig, S. Merazzi, H. Timmermans, D. Rajpal et al.

   Pages 71-94

7. Semi-Analytical Modeling of Non-stationary Fluid-Structure Interaction

   • Serguei Iakovlev

   Pages 95-109

8. Fluid Structure Modelling of Ground Excited Vibrations by Mesh Morphing and Modal Superposition

   • A. Martinez-Pascual, Marco Evangelos Biancolini, J. Ortega-Casanova

   Pages 111-127

9. Unsteady FSI Analysis of a Square Array of Tubes in Water Crossflow

   • Emiliano Costa, Corrado Groth, Jacques Lavedrine, Domenico Caridi, Gaëtan Dupain, Marco Evangelos Biancolini

   Pages 129-152

10. Risk Measures Applied to Robust Aerodynamic Shape Design Optimization

    • Domenico Quagliarella, Elisa Morales Tirado, Andrea Bornaccioni

    Pages 153-168

11. Aero-structural Optimization of a MALE Configuration in the AGILE MDO Framework

    • Reinhold Maierl, Alessandro Gastaldi, Jan-Niclas Walther, Aidan Jungo

    Pages 169-187

This book discusses the recent advances in aircraft design methodologies. It provides an overview of topics such as shape optimization, robust design and aeroelasticity, focusing on fluid-structure numerical methodologies to address static and dynamic aeroelastic problems. It demonstrates that the capability to evaluate the interaction between aerodynamics, inertia and elastic forces is important to avoid drag penalties, control system efficiency loss and generation of potentially dangerous phenomena, such as divergence, control reversal and flutter. The book particularly highlights the advances in “high fidelity” CFD-CSM coupling, describing the latest experimental research to validate the numerical fluid-structure interaction analysis methodologies resulting from the EU-funded RBF4AERO and RIBES projects.

• Aeroelasticity
• Shape Optimisation
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Computational Structural Mechanics (CSM)
• Finite Element Method (FEM)
• Wind Tunnel (WT) Testing
• Radial Basis Functions (RBF)
• Sustainability
• fluid- and aerodynamics

• University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

  Marco Evangelos Biancolini, Ubaldo Cella

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