Modèle aéroélastique appliqué à la déformation d'un gréement

ABSTRACTThis study adds to the development of a non linear aeroelastic model which is destined to predict the behaviour of a thin flexible surface in contact with a flow under the hypothesis of an inviscid fluid. This fluid structure interaction model integrates a structure calculation, based on a membrane model, with a fluid calculation, based on a singularity method associated with a vortex method. The results on a J80 rig are compared to the experiments in situ.