25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-10.5.2

CALCULATION OF F/A-18 FATIGUE LOADS AND WING DEFORMATION USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

M. Guillaume, J. Vos*, A. Gehri, B. Butcher, S. Merazzi**, T. Ludwig**, G. Mendanis***
RUAG Aerospace, Switzerland; *CFS Engineering; **SMR SA; ***M@M GmbH

Keywords: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Loads, Fluid Structure Coupling

The prediction of aircraft loads on an airplane design is a very important task. RUAG Aerospace developed a procedure to use computational fluid dynamics for the prediction of aircraft loads, and to transfer the loads to the structure for the analysis of the fatigue loads over the entire F/A-18.

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