First proposed in the 1950's, oblique flying wings offer superior aerodynamic performance in transonic and supersonic flight. Recent advances in technology have revived interest in such configurations for supersonic transports. These configurations will exhibit aeroelastic and flight dynamic characteristics which are different from those encountered in symmetric wing-body configurations. This paper seeks to understand aeroelasticity and its coupling with flight dynamics in oblique flying wing configurations. A sample configuration is analysed using geometrically-exact beam theory to model the structure and a combination of vortex-lattice and doublet-lattice models for the aerodynamics.
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