01.1 - Aircraft Design and Integrated Systems (Theory, Methods and Tools)

COMPARISON OF FLEXIBLE AIRCRAFT CONFIGURATIONS USING AEROELASTIC ANALYSIS

N. Okubo¹, N. Morita, Velocity Aeroworks .Inc, Japan; T. Tuchiya¹; ¹The University of Tokyo, Japan

Various configurations of flexible aircraft, most notably High-Altitude Pseudo Satellites (HAPS), have been proposed and actively developed in recent years. In this study, aeroelastic analyses on multiple airframe geometries are conducted using the panel method and shell-based finite element method (shell-FEM) to compare their respective aeroelastic characteristics and actual flight test.

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DOI: 10.71945/icas2026_0609