Control-oriented aerothermoelastic modeling approaches for hypersonic vehicles

Author

Culler, Adam J., Jr. ; McNamara, Jack J. ; Crowell, Andrew R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Aerosp. Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

10-12 June 2009

Firstpage

2501

Lastpage

2506

Abstract

The field of aerothermoelasticity is essential for control-oriented modeling of hypersonic vehicles due to a high degree of coupling between vehicle systems, as well as the presence of aerodynamic heating. In the present study, an efficient aerothermoelastic model is investigated in two ways. First, an approximate aerodynamic heating model is verified using Computational Fluid Dynamic flow analysis. Next, the model is used to gain insight into the degree of coupling between the aerothermal and aeroelastic systems. Results demonstrate that both material property degradation and two-way coupling are important for control-oriented aerothermoelastic modeling. Furthermore, quasi-static and dynamic average approaches for fluid-thermal-structural coupling offer an accurate and efficient approximation for implementing two-way coupling.

Keywords

aerodynamics; aircraft; computational fluid dynamics; thermoelasticity; aerodynamic heating model; aeroelastic system; aerothermal system; aerothermoelasticity; computational fluid dynamic flow analysis; control-oriented aerothermoelastic modeling; fluid thermal structural coupling; hypersonic vehicle system; material property degradation; Aerodynamics; Fluid flow control; Heating; Marine vehicles; Temperature control; Thermal conductivity; Thermal expansion; Thermal force; Thermal loading; Vehicle dynamics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, 2009. ACC '09.

Conference_Location

St. Louis, MO

ISSN

0743-1619

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4523-3

Electronic_ISBN

0743-1619

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.2009.5160023

Filename

5160023