Development and Validation of Sliding and Non-Matching Grid Technology for Control Surface Representation

Abstract

Aeroservoelastic simulation of realistic configurations requires the representation of moving control surfaces. Once a control surface is deflected, for example, at the trailing edge of a wing, the surface is no longer continuous and this is considered here. A sliding grid approach is used to allow control surface deflection within a multiblock-structured grid framework. Two methods of information transfer between patched (non-matching) grids are developed and tested in this paper: the first involving halo interpolation and the second, conservative flux interpolation. Results are presented for a range of test cases involving steady and unsteady flows using non-matching and sliding interfaces at block boundaries. It is shown that both methods can be applied to the example of a wing with a deflected control surface, where no advantage is gained by using a significantly more complex, conservative method.