26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-2.8.1

TOWARDS AERODYNAMIC OPTIMISATION OF AN AEROELASTIC WING USING DOMAIN ELEMENT PARAMETERISATION

A. M. Morris, C. B. Allen, T. C. S. Rendall
Univ. of Bristol, UK

Keywords: Aerodynamic, Aeroelastic, Optimisation, Domain Element, Radial Basis Functions

An aeroelastic three-dimensional wing is parameterised via a domain element using surface and volume mesh deformation by radial basis functions, allowing optimisation that is mesh and solver independent. An Euler solver is combined with a modal structural solution to provide the aeroelastic solver. An advanced parallel gradient-based algorithm is used.

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