27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-5.5.3

ANALYTICAL NONLINEAR ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY FOR REDUCED AIRCRAFT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

A. Omran, B. Newman
Old Dominion Univ., USA

Keywords: volterra theory, uniaxial motion, nonlinear dynamics

Analytical methodology is presented to conduct dynamical assembly of simple low order nonlinear responses for system prediction using Volterra theory. The procedure is set forth generically and then applied to several aircraft examples. Results show the ability of proposed analytical models to predict and understand nonlinear aircraft behavior.

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