Simulate aircraft structure aeroelasticity with industry-proven solvers. A critical part of the digital thread, from concept studies to structural certification.
Simulate aircraft structure aeroelasticity at any Mach number with industry-proven state-of-the-art solvers.
Aeroelastic capabilities
Simcenter Zona is a leading simulation software for aeroelastic performance of aircraft designs for almost 40 years. Simcenter Zona can be used with any kind of aircraft or spacecraft design across all speed domains: subsonic, transonic, supersonic and hypersonic.
End-to-end aircraft digital thread
Simcenter Zona aeroelastic methods and tools enable flight physics simulation workflows to be tightly integrated into the overall aircraft development digital thread through the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio for multidisciplinary design and optimization. By tightly integrating aeroelastic analysis into a digital thread, you secure the traceability of data in the context of aircraft certification. This will lead to major productivity gains when building the aircraft structural certification dossier.
Connecting virtual and physical test data
The aeroelastic certification process is based on virtual and physical test data. Siemens is a leader in ground vibration tests and flutter testing solutions.
Accurately model wing-body configurations with high-fidelity geometry. The Unified Aerodynamic Influence Coefficient (UAIC) scheme empowers running analyses in subsonic, transonic, supersonic and hypersonic Mach numbers with a single aerodynamic model.
An advanced engineering software solution for the computation of aircraft flight loads, including aeroelasticity and aerothermoelasticity effects, that provides detailed stress analysis of the aircraft structure.
Utilizing a unified high-order subsonic/supersonic/hypersonic panel methodology as the underlying aerodynamic force generator to efficiently create aerodynamic and loads databases for 6-degree-of-freedom simulation and critical loads identification. The unstructured surface panel scheme is compatible with the finite element method so that existing pre-processors, such as Simcenter 3D and Simcenter Femap, can be used to set up the aerodynamic model.
An Euler equation solver is used as the underlying aerodynamic force generator, coupled with a structural finite element modal solution, to solve various aeroelastic problems such as flutter, maneuver loads, gust loads and static aeroelastic/trim analysis. Structural nonlinearities can also be included to perform a nonlinear aeroelastic analysis.
