Aeroelasticity of Flexible Aircraft

Experimental Aeroelasticity of Flexible Aircraft

Project: X-HALE: Flight Testing for Control Development Sponsor: A2SRL Researcher(s): John Hansen, Maj. USAF

Project: Small Testbed Development to Study Aeroelastic Effects in Large Solar Powered Airplanes Sponsors: Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS), AeroVironment Inc., Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation and Facebook Inc. Researcher(s): Pedro Jose Gonzalez Ramirez

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Flexible Aircraft Modeling for Aeroelastic Analysis and Simulation

Project: Geometrically Nonlinear Effects and Dynamic Aeroelasticity in Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Sponsor: Airbus-Michigan Center for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft (CASE-VFA) Researcher(s): Cristina Riso

Project: Output-Based CFD Model Reduction with Error Estimation Sponsor: Airbus-Michigan Center for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft (CASE-VFA) Researcher(s): Qingzhao Wang

Project: High-Order FSI for Large-Deformation Aeroelastic Simulations Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Researcher(s): Braden Frigoletto

Project: Including Dynamic Aeroelasticity into the Design Process Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Researcher(s): Christopher Lupp

Project: Modeling Flight Dynamics of Flexible Aircraft and Control Design Sponsor: Airbus-Michigan Center for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft (CASE-VFA) Researcher(s): Guillaume Dematté

Project: Efficient aerodynamic modeling for aeroelastic analysis of very flexible wings Sponsor: CNPq Researcher(s): Patricia C. Teixeira

Project: Aeroelastic Analysis of Very Flexible Aircraft using Nonlinear Modes Sponsor: CNPq uCRM 13.5 wing model deformed in flight, calculated with ROM Researcher(s): Renato Medeiros

Control Development for Very Flexible Aircraft

Project: Control and Model Order Reduction for Very Flexible Aircraft Sponsor: Airbus-Michigan Center for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft (CASE-VFA) Researcher(s): Maxime Feingesicht

Project: Nonlinear Control Development for Maneuver and Gust Load Alleviation for Very Flexible Aircraft Sponsor: Airbus-Michigan Center for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft (CASE-VFA) Researcher(s): Mateus de Freitas Virgílio Pereira

Project: Top-to-Bottom Model Reduction for Control Design Sponsor: Airbus-Michigan Center for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft (CASE-VFA) Researcher(s): Manuel Lanchares Prieto

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Past Projects

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Aerolastic Tailoring for Flexible Aircraft

Project: Passive Aeroelastic Tailoring of Transport Aircraft Sponsor: NASA, Aurora Flight Sciences Researcher(s): Christopher Lupp

Project: Materials and Structural Concepts for Aeroelastically-Tailored Aircraft Wings (ATWIST) Sponsor: NASA, Aurora Flight Sciences Researcher(s): Pinar Acar

Project: Aeroelastic Tailoring of Very Flexible High Aspect Ratio Wings Sponsor: Technische Universität Berlin Researcher(s): Christopher Lupp

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Experimental Aeroelasticity of Flexible Aircraft

Project: X-HALE: Flight Testing A Very Flexible UAV for Aeroelastic Tests Sponsor: A2SRL Researcher(s): Jessica Jones

Project: X-HALE: Instrumenting A Very Flexible UAV for Aeroelastic Tests Sponsor: A2SRL Researcher(s): Zi Yang Pang

Project: X-HALE: Designing A Very Flexible UAV for Aeroelastic Tests Sponsor: AFRL Researcher(s): Patrick Senatore Blake Davis Elizabeth Prentice

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Computational Aeroelasticity of Flexible Aircraft

Project: FEM-based Aeroelastic Modeling of Very Flexible Aircraft Sponsor: Sapienza – Università di Roma (Sapienza University of Rome) Researcher(s): Cristina Riso

Project: Nonlinear Aeroelastic Analysis of the X-56 MUTT Sponsor: NASA Researcher(s): Jessica Jones

Project: Aeroelastic Simulation of N+3 Aircraft Sponsor: NASA Researcher(s): Ryan Kitson

Project: High-Fidelity Aeroelastic Simulation Sponsor: AFRL/RB Researcher(s): Ben Hallissy

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Gust Load Alleviation

Project: Gust Load Alleviation for Highly Flexible Aircraft Sponsor: USAF Researcher(s): Matt Dillsaver

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Flapping Wing MAVs

Project: Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles Sponsor: AFOSR-MURI Researcher(s): Weihua Su