mdolab / mdolab/OpenAeroStruct

Right-side symmetric wing does not work for aerostructural analysis.

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Description

Description

Aerostructural analysis (both tubular and wingbox) does not work with right-side symmetric wings. Currently, only the aerodynamic analysis/optimization can handle right-side wings as fixed in PR #381 .

Most of the examples in OAS use left-side symmetric wing, therefore this bug does not affect most of the cases.
Exception is the OpenVSP-generated symmetric wings, which sit on the right-side plane (as reported in #396 )

Steps to reproduce issue
  1. Copy any aerostructural example with a symmetric wing, and flip the mesh to obtain the right-side mesh:
mesh = mesh[:, ::-1, :]
mesh[:, :, 1] *= -1.0
  1. Run aerostructural analysis with the flipped mesh.
Current behavior

Aerostructural solver fails.

Expected behavior

The right-side wing results should be the same as the original left-wing results.

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Research direction

Start by copying an aerostructural example with a symmetric wing and reproduce the failure using the mesh flip shown in the issue. Trace the aerostructural solver's handling of right-side symmetric wings; done means both tubular and wingbox analyses run successfully and produce the same results as the original left-side case.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
backend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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