Title: ACCELERATING CFD-BASED FLIGHT MECHANICS AND AEROELASTIC ANALYSIS USING DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING
Author(s): A.A. Boeckman and A.S. Arena
Date: January 2004
Pages: 8
Abstract: Distributed Processing is applied to CFD-based aeroelastic analysis to accelerate the completion of the flutter boundary prediction. The process for identifying an aeroelastic boundary is divided into several independent simulations that are distributed to multiple computers. The solutions are completed in parallel. This parallelism is used to accelerate the prediction of the instability boundary. This process is also applied to the generation of training data for the system identification of the unsteady aerodynamic response to motion and force on a modal structural model. The equipment used in this study is common off-the-shelf computing hardware. This method is application ready with no required of alterations to the CFD solver. Results address the extent to which this methodology is applicable to aerospace applications.