Summary of Flow Modulation and Fluid-Structure Interaction Findings

Vortex Sheets of Aircraft in Takeoff and Landing.- An Adaptive Implicit Finite Volume Scheme for Compressible Turbulent Flows about Elastic Configurations.- Timestep Control for Weakly Instationary Flows.- Adaptive Multiscale Methods for Flow Problems: Recent Developments.- Interaction of Wing-Tip Vortices and Jets in the Extended Wake.- Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Unsteady Transonic Airfoil Flow.- Enabling Technologies for Robust High-Performance Simulations in Computational Fluid Dynamics.- Influencing Aircraft Wing Vortices.- Development of a Modular Method for Computational Aero-structural Analysis of Aircraft.- A Unified Approach to the Modeling of Airplane Wings and Numerical Grid Generation Using B-Spline Representations.- Parallel and Adaptive Methods for Fluid-Structure-Interactions.- Iterative Solvers for Discretized Stationary Euler Equations.- Unsteady Transonic Fluid - Structure - Interaction at the BAC 3-11 High Aspect Ratio Swept Wing.- Structural Idealization of Flexible Generic Wings in Computational Aeroelasticity.- Aero-structural Dynamics Experiments at High Reynolds Numbers.

The Collaborative Research Center SFB 401: Flow Modulation and Fluid-StructureInteraction at Airplane Wings investigates numerically and experimentally fundamentalproblems of very high capacity aircraft having large elastic wings. This issue summarizesthe findings of the 12-year research program at RWTH Aachen University whichwas funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) from 1997 through2008. The research program covered the following three main topics of large transportaircraft: (i) Model flow, wakes, and vortices of airplanes in high-lift-configuration,(ii) Numerical tools for large scale adaptive flow simulation based on multiscaleanalysis and a parametric mapping concept for grid generation, and (iii) Validatedcomputational design tools based on direct aeroelastic simulation with reducedstructural models.

Summary of Flow Modulation and Fluid-Structure Interaction Findings Results of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 401 at the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, 1997-2008 Written by experts in the field