26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS2008-2.10 ST2:

COMPRESSIBLE FLUID-FLOW ALE FORMULATION ON CHANGING TOPOLOGY MESHES FOR AEROELASTIC SIMULATIONS

G. Quaranta, A. Guardone, D. Muffo
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Keywords: Unsteady Aerodynamics, Fluid-Structure Interactions, Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian

A strategy to the simulation of unsteady aerodynamic with moving domain is proposed. A mesh update blending mesh deformation with local edge-swapping, allows to obtain the solution at the current time level by employing standard ALE techniques without requiring any interpolation or remeshing.

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