An airplane jig shape design method based on high fidelity aeroelastic simulation

This paper develops a jig-shape design method for the elastic wing of the commercial aircraft with high aspect ratio. Two optimization steps are involved in the design method to optimize the jig shape of the elastic wing with the user-desired cruise aerodynamic performance. The real aeroelastic simulation becomes the fundamental of the design procedure. Structural mesh based CFD solver has been applied to simulate the transonic flow with high fidelity. Finite element based structural model of wing with complex configuration is constructed, and the flexibility matrix is evaluated to predict the deflection of the wing. The high-efficient mesh deformation technique and the data exchange interface between CFD and CSD are implemented, which improves the efficiency and accuracy of current approach. The jig shape design of a baseline commercial aircraft is presented, and the numerical simulation shows that the design method is strong enough to obtain the optimized jig shape efficiently.