04.2 - Aerostructures Design, Structural Dynamics, Aeroelasticity
NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF PASSIVE AND ACTIVE ALLEVIATION OF DYNAMIC LOADS ON HIGH-ASPECT-RATIO-WING VEHICLES
C.W. Cheng¹, S. Duessler¹, R. Palacios¹, G. Wilson¹; ¹Imperial College London, United Kingdom
We present a nonlinear simulation environment for the design and testing of gust load alleviation systems, which consideres 1) passive solutions such as flared folding wing tips, large wing deflections, complex vehicle geometries and advanced control architectures. We exercise this on a representative vehicle derived from the FLEXOP configuration.