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This User’s Guide describes in detail the numerous features of MSC FlightLoads and Dynamics. The guide is organized to emphasize the graphical nature of MSC FlightLoads and Dynamics. Following this Introduction there is an overview section, “Getting Started,” that sets the stage for the remaining chapters, which lead the user through each of the system modules.
Separate chapters discuss:
• Aero Modeling
• Aerodynamics
• Aeroelasticity
• Results Browser
• Import/Export
Appendices provide theoretical and user information on the solutions central to the aeroelastic analyses, including the following:
• Panel Aerodynamics
• Splines
• Results Interface via XDB
• Aerodyanmic and Aeroelastic Databases
• Static Aeroelastic Analysis
• MSC Nastran Input File
This document is intended to provide a thorough introduction to MSC FlightLoads and Dynamics, but it can address only a small fraction of the issues that are invoked by the system. MSC has many other related documents and the user is advised to search out these relevant publications. Two especially important ones are:
• MSC Nastran Aeroelastic Analysis User’s Guide
• MSC Patran User’s Guide
The MSC Bookstore is on the World Wide Web at www.mscsoftware.com; select the engineering-e.com tab and the BooksMart button to display a comprehensive list of publications available from MSC.Software.