23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-4.1.4

ON THE NONLINEAR DYNAMICS APPROACH OF MODELING THE BIFURCATION FOR TRANSONIC LIMIT CYCLE FLUTTER

H. Matsushita (1), T. Miyata (1), L. E. Christiansen (2), T. Lehn-Schiĝler (2), E. Mosekilde (2)
(1) Fukui University, Japan; (2) Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

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This paper reports the improvement of the two-degrees- of-freedom, finite dimensional, nonlinear math model, which has been proposed and developed by the authors to explain every feature of the transonic flutter data of the wind tunnel tests conducted at National Aerospace Laboratory in Japan for a high aspect ratio wing.

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