Component Test System Using Method And System For Modeling Aerodynamic Interactions In Complex eVTOL Configurations

A component test system, said system adapted to test aircraft components during flight simulations using load experienced during the simulation, said system comprising:

• a first aircraft component, said first aircraft component electronically coupled to a bench test computer system;
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• a computer system comprises a non-transitory computer storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions for generating a bench test environment for:
• obtaining a fluid-flow mesh or grid in computer memory, the fluid flow mesh encompassing a computational volume defined in a first coordinate frame, the fluid flow mesh comprising a plurality of cells or grid points;
• obtaining an aircraft representation based in a second coordinate frame in computer memory;
• obtaining initial conditions for the fluid flow mesh or grid in computer memory;
• fixedly coupling said second coordinate frame with said aircraft representation in said first coordinate frame with said computational volume, using a computer processor, wherein said aircraft representation comprises a representation of force actuators onto the fluid;
• determining, using the computer processor, the updated induced velocity of the fluid based upon force inputs from the force actuators representing the aircraft frame using a discretized fluid flow solver;
• determining, using the computer processor, the local Courant number for each mesh cell within the computational volume;
• determining, using the computer processor, the updated total advection within the computational volume based upon the induced velocity and the aircraft motion, wherein said advection determination method is based upon the local Courant number for each mesh cell or grid point;
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• storing the updated total advection in computer memory.
• obtaining, in computer memory, a ground reference frame coordinate system;
• determining, using the computer processor, the inputs to be directed to said aircraft component;
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• sending, using the computer processor, the inputs to said aircraft component.