28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-8.10.1

NEOCASS: AN OPEN SOURCE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE AEROELASTIC ANALYSIS AT CONCEPTUAL DESIGN LEVEL

L. Cavagna, A. De Gaspari, S. Ricci, L. Riccobene, L. Travaglini
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Keywords: conceptual design, aeroelasticity, unsteady aerodynamics, computer aided design, cad

The paper describes NeoCASS, a Matlab-based framework for the structural sizing and aeroelastic analysis of aircraft at conceptual design level. Originally developed during EU-FP6 funded SimSAC project, NeoCASS suite became recently an open source project. The paper reports the new capabilities recently introduced together with some significant numerical examples.

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