Research Article

Static Aeroelastic Characteristics of Morphing Trailing-Edge Wing Using Geometrically Exact Vortex Lattice Method

Figure 2

The different discrete vortex representations using different VLMs.
(a) Aerodynamic surface before and after deformation
(b) Discrete vortex representation using traditional linear VLM
(c) Discrete vortex representation using geometrically exact VLM