Title: Accelerating CFD-Based Aeroelastic Analysis Using Distributed Processing
Journal: Journal of Aerospace Computing,
Information, and Communication
Author(s): A.A. Boeckman and A.S. Arena
Date: May 2004
Pages: 216-224
Formats: Available from AIAA
Abstract: Distributed processing is applied to CFD-based aeroelastic analysis to accelerate the completion of flutter boundary predictions. The process for identifying an aeroelastic stability 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 alterations to the CFD solver. Results address the extent to which this methodology is applicable to aerospace applications.