An Aerodynamic Correction Technique for the Unsteady Subsonic Wing–Body Interference Model

Abstract

This paper investigates a novel correction technique for the unsteady subsonic wing–body interference model. The correction technique considers the unsteady forces on the lifting boxes and the body elements of an idealized aircraft model. The chosen simulation model was a passenger aircraft, and the transonic unsteady aerodynamics in sinusoidal pitch motion at four different frequencies are analyzed. The unsteady aerodynamics of the uncorrected DLM (doublet lattice method), ECFT (enhanced correction factor technique) and the new unsteady wing–body correction method are compared to the unsteady CFD simulation results. The results show that when the frequency is small, the new unsteady wing–body correction method can obtain certain benefits in terms of accuracy, for the lifting boxes and the body elements as well.