Quasi-steady doublet-lattice correction for aerodynamic gust response prediction in attached and separated transonic flow

Abstract

A quasi-steady doublet-lattice correction method is used to predict aerodynamic gust responses of two different configurations: a swept wing, the so-called Aerostabil wing, and a transport aircraft configuration, the NASA Common Research Model. The results of the correction method are compared to uncorrected doublet-lattice results, and to results obtained from a nonlinear computational fluid dynamics solver, the DLR TAU-Code. The correction method agrees well with time-marching results obtained by TAU in the limit of dynamically linear gust amplitudes and improves with gust length. In separated transonic flow, an oscillation of the aerodynamic gust response can be computed.