Reducedordermodel(ROM)ofablendedwingbody(BWB)aircraftconfiguration.docVIP

Reduced order model (ROM) of a blended wing body (BWB) aircraft configuration F. Stroscher*, Z. Sika**, ?. Petersson* *Institute of Lightweight Structures, Technical University Munich Boltzmannstr. 15, 85747 Garching b. München, Germany **Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Technicka 4, Praha 6, Czech Republik Abstract This paper describes the full development process of a numerical simulation model for the ACFA2020 BWB aircraft configuration. Its requirements are the prediction of aeroelastic and flight dynamic response in time domain, with relatively small model order. Further, the model had to be parameterized w.r.t. multiple fuel filling conditions, as well as flight conditions. High efforts have been conducted in high-order aerodynamic analysis, for subsonic and transonic regime, by several project partners. The integration of the unsteady aerodynamic databases was one of the key issues in aeroelastic modeling. 1. Introduction Today, active control and load alleviation is in use in military and more limited in civil transport aircraft. However, this technique still promises significant improvements for fuel efficiency, fatigue life and ride comfort. Some future aircraft configurations, like the blended wing body (BWB), might even rely on active control to remain airworthy. An unacceptably high vibration level in the cabin of such aircraft might be reduced to the requirements on comfort of today aircraft, or even better. The ACFA2020 BWB aircraft configuration (figure 1) shall fully be exploited by active control design, in order to demonstrate best possible performance of load alleviation and ride comfort of such aircraft concepts. figure 1: exterior surface of BWB aircraft configuration Active control design optimization in aircraft configurational design demands for low order simulation models, recovering the relevant aircraft dynamics for a manifold of mass distributions and flight conditions. Highly flexible aircraft s