Reduced-Order Aeroelastic Models for Dynamics of Maneuvering Flexible Aircraft
Reduced-Order Aeroelastic Models for Dynamics of Maneuvering Flexible Aircraft
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DOI:
10.2514/1.j052684
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发表时间:
2014-07
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2.5
通讯作者:
H. Hesse;R. Palacios
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作者:
H. Hesse;R. Palacios
This paper investigates the model reduction, using balanced realizations, of the unsteady aerodynamics of maneuvering flexible aircraft. The aeroelastic response of the vehicle, which may be subject to large wing deformations at trimmed flight, is captured by coupling a displacement-based flexible-body dynamics formulation with an aerodynamic model based on the unsteady vortex lattice method. Consistent linearization of the aeroelastic problem allows the projection of the structural degrees of freedom on a few vibration modes of the unconstrained vehicle but preserves all couplings between the rigid and elastic motions and permits the vehicle flight dynamics to have arbitrarily large angular velocities. The high-order aerodynamic system, which defines the mapping between the small number of generalized coordinates and unsteady aerodynamic loads, is then reduced using the balanced truncation method. Numerical studies on a representative high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft show a very substantial reducti...