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The fourth Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop (AePW-4) is begin organized as a collaboration with the eighth Drag Prediction Workshop (DPW-8), in order to leverage and cross-pollinate the expertise of the two communities. The joint workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2026 AIAA Aviation conference, and is an open and impartial forum meant to assess and evaluate the current state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice in computational aeroelastic modeling. The workshop is aimed at understanding the effectiveness of current tools towards predicting aeroelastic phenomena critical for aircraft analysis and design, and also identifying computational and experimental areas of research needing further development. Several working groups have been setup as part of this joint effort, three of which are entirely under the AePW umbrella:

• High-Angle working group (HAWG: focused on transonic buffet and flutter phenomena)
• High-Speed working group (HSWG: focused on supersonic flow over flexible panels and plates).
• Large-Deflection working group (LDWG: focused on slender wings undergoing large nonlinear structural deformations)

Details of the working groups considered jointly under the DPW umbrella can be found here. Research from each of these working groups will be presented at the workshop, followed by a detailed discussion and interpretation of the results. Re-analysis and future workshop plans will also be discussed. The AePW is sponsored by the AIAA Structural Dynamics Technical Committee.