A Hybrid Trailing Edge Control Surface Capable of Camber and Decamber Morphing

This study presents the design and analysis of a novel hybrid trailing edge control surface that is capable to perform both camber and decamber morphing. The design was conducted with CATIA V5-6R2012 package program. Structural analyses were performed with Finite Element Method by using ANSYS® Workbench™ v14.0 package program both in in-vacuo condition and under aerodynamic loading. The aerodynamic loads were calculated by Computational Fluid Dynamics analyses. The required aerodynamic mesh was generated by Pointwise® V17.2 R2 package program, and SU2 (Stanford University Unstructured) V3.2.1 open source software was used as flow solver. The results prove that the designed control surface is capable of performing both camber and decamber morphing both in in-vacuo condition and under aerodynamic loading