03.1 - Aerodynamics – CFD Methods and Validation
A STATIC STABILITY COMPARISON OF WIND TUNNEL AND COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS METHODS
L.K. Fitzgerald¹, A.J. Niven¹, P.C. Griffin¹; ¹University of Limerick, Ireland
The field of aircraft stability and control has traditionally relied on pertinent information from wind tunnel experiments, semi-empirical methods, and flight testing. The current study utilises the results from wind tunnel testing and computational fluid dynamics to investigate the static longitudinal and lateral directional stability of the standard dynamics model.