Aeroelastic coupling stops rerunning CFD every iteration: full-field physics models converge a transonic swept wing in 8 to 11 minutes on one GPU
Static aeroelastic coupling of a transonic swept wing used to rerun CFD at every iteration, taking about four hours to converge. Replacing the flow solve with a full-field physics model that predicts surface pressure and wall shear stress directly from CAD geometry brings the same loop to 8 to 11 minutes on a single T4 GPU; on three wings both loops converged in four iterations and their predicted washout lift loss differed by 0.2 to 0.8 percentage points.