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A fast dynamic mesh technology by our research group has been applied in the time synchronized fluid-structure coupling. It is found that flow mesh update after the convergent calculation of the flow will induce excessive iterations in the computation of flow increasing the computing time of fluid-structure coupling. To reduce the computing time, a time-space synchronized fluid-structure coupling algorithm was developed in this paper based on the pre-existing time synchronized method and the fast dynamic mesh technology. The wing vibration and flow mesh deformation were computed using the fast dynamic mesh technology after each iteration in the calculation of the flow. Namely, the flow and the wing vibration were solved in space synchronization. The calculating convergence of the flow and the wing vibration were both achieved through iterations every time step. Namely, the flow and the wing vibration were solved in time synchronization. Thus, the flow and the wing vibration are coupled both in time and space synchronization. The flutter boundary of wing 445.6 was predicted using the present algorithm. The calculated results compare well with the experimental data and the computing time was almost reduced by 75%.

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Wing flutter fluid-structure coupling dynamic mesh time synchronization space synchronization time-space synchronization

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A time-space synchronized fluid-structure coupling algorithm for the prediction of wing flutter

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