FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION BASED ON PANEL METHOD AND GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR STRUCTURAL ANALYSISSedat Ozozturk, Altan Kayran and Ismail H. Tuncer The article presents fluid-structure interaction methodology for the static aeroelastic coupling of aerostructures. A CFD and a FEM solver are coupled and the aeroelastic solution is iterated in order to obtain the steady state condition of the aerostructure. A three dimensional panel method is used as the CFD solver and MSC.Nastran is used as the finite element solver. In order to investigate large deformation effects, which are common in flexible aerostructures such as high aspect ratio wings, panel solution is coupled with both geometrically linear and nonlinear solution sequences of Nastran. The article explains the coupling process of the aerodynamic panels and the structural finite element mesh in detail and emphasizes the significance of geometrically non-linear structural analysis in static aeroelastic analysis of flexible structures. |