Progress in computational flow-structure interaction. Results of the project UNSI, supported by the European Union 1998--2000. (Q701813)

Aircraft industries need an improved capacity of robust, accurate and reliable prediction methods in coupled aeroelastic flight mechanics and loads disciplines. The European UNSI (Unsteady Viscous Flow in the Context of Fluid-Structure Interaction) project was aiming at increasing the capabilities of European aeronautics industry in the area of aircraft design by enhancing the ability to accurately predict fluid-structure interaction phenomena. This is shown in the reviewed book. After introductory parts 1 and 2, part 3 contains the description of UNSI technical project which is divided into 6 tasks: 1. Test case definition and identification. 2. Measurements for high subsonic, steady/unsteady two-dimensional airfoil and three-dimensional wing. 3. Grids for unsteady analysis flow around aircraft and aircraft components. 4. Coupling strategies/coupling of CFD (computational fluid dynamics) and CSM (computational structural mechanics). 5 Time linearization strategies and improved linear theory predictions; calibration of aeroelasticity methods for different flow regimes including flutter phenomena. 6. Project management and exploitation. In 15 chapters of part II project partners provide an overview of methods used and highlight results achieved: 1. Coupling procedure is reported that has been implemented by Alenia Aeronautics in order to solve fluid-structure interaction schemes. 2. Effective schemes for CFD-CSM coupling (BAe). 3. Developed by CASA methodology to deal with nonlinear aeroelasticity problems in ``time'' domain, including a) a CFD code for unsteady flows, b) a tool for computing deforming and moving grids, c) a coupling method for CFD-CSM, both in time and geometry. 4. Static and dynamic aeroelastic simulation of transonic and supersonic flows (EADS-M). 5. Extension of capabilities of the deformation software tool for unstructured grids and evaluating the influence of the intermediate grid refinement used in coupling process (DA). 6. Adaptation for unsteady viscous flow (DERA). 7. Simulation of steady and unsteady flows around airfoils (DLR). 8. Flow physics and numerical issues for unsteady and aeroelastic computations (FFA). 9. Turbulence modelling of unsteady flows with a pronounced periodic character (IMFT). 10. Experimental methods for subsonic flow measurements. 11. All-hexahedra unstructured flow solver for external aerodynamics with application to aeroelasticity. 12. Static and dynamic aeroelastic computation with 3-D unsteady aerodynamic solver. 13. Numerical modelling of fluid-structure interaction problems (QMW). 14. Time linearization in accurate prediction of dynamic and static aeroelastic phenomena (Saab). 15. Turbulence modelling for unsteady, non-equilibrium flows, fluid-structure interaction and physical modelling in general (TU Berlin). Part III contains a summary of work carried out in the main tasks of the UNSI project, which mainly concern grid methods applications in aeroelasticity (data base for steady and unsteady, 2D and 3D flow, grid deformation and adaptation, CFD validation results, coupling of structure and fluids, static aeroelastic coupling-flutter, assessment of strategies for correcting linear unsteady aerodynamics using CFD or test results). Finally, part IV presents application-oriented works within the context of UNSI.