Analysis of Flight Loads during Symmetric Aircraft Maneuvers Based on the Gradient-Enhanced Kriging Model

The analysis of flight loads during symmetric aircraft maneuvers is an essential but computationally intensive task in aircraft design. The significant structural elastic deformation in modern aircraft further complicates this work, adding to the computational demands. Therefore, improving the analysis efficiency of flight loads during maneuvers is crucial for accelerating design interactions and shortening the development cycle. This study explores a method for analyzing flight loads in the time domain during maneuvers of elastic aircraft by introducing a database of high-precision rigid-body aerodynamic loads. Furthermore, it combines the gradient-enhanced Kriging model to efficiently predict elastic flight loads during longitudinal maneuvers. The results indicate that the proposed surrogate-based method has high fitting accuracy with significantly improved computational efficiency, providing a new approach for efficient analysis of flight loads during aircraft maneuvers.