X-56A aeroelastic flight test predictions

Daniel A. Reasor; Keerti K. Bhamidipati; Alexander W. Chin

doi:10.2514/6.2016-1053

X-56A aeroelastic flight test predictions

Daniel A. Reasor
, Keerti K. Bhamidipati
, Alexander W. Chin

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Abstract

The unstructured fixed wing flow solver CREATE™-AV Kestrel was used to perform high-fidelity aeroelastic simulations of the X-56A aircraft undergoing maneuvers, representative of flight test. Validation of the predicted aerodynamic performance characteristics are performed through comparison of force and moment coefficients with ground and flight test results. All grids were constructed using CREATE™-MG Capstone. Aeroelastic valdation will be performed by assessing loads, accelerometer data, leading edge stagnation point, and body-freedom utter onset speed from future NASA Armstrong flight tests.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	54th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting
Publisher	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA
ISBN (Print)	9781624103933
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2016-1053
State	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	54th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 2016 - San Diego, United States Duration: Jan 4 2016 → Jan 8 2016

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Name	54th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting
Volume	0

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Conference	54th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	01/4/16 → 01/8/16

Funding

The authors thank the CREATETMSTAR Program and Pete Flick of the Air Force Research Laboratory for their generous support and the CREATE™-AV developers of Capstone and Kestrel for their efforts. This work could not have been completed without the assistance of the CREATET™Quality Assurance Team, speciffcally, Benjamin Hallissy, David Hine, and Theresa Shafer. The authors are grateful to the NAVY DSRC for use of Haise, AFRL DSRC for the use of Lightning, and Joseph Laiosa for his assistance in providing access to HPC resources. The authors would also like to express our gratitude for the support of Chan-Gi Pak and Wesley Li of NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Donald Malloy and SMART Scholar Dalton Baier of the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (the latter for writing the modal effective mass post-processing scripts), and Crystal Pasiliao of the AFRL Munitions Directorate.

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