Semianalytical sensitivity of Floquet characteristic exponents with application to rotary-wing aeroelasticity

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 322-330

  Shih, Ih Cheng ^a   Spence, Anne Marie ^a   Celi, Roberte ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b AIAA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HELICOPTERS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; ROTORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STABILITY; WINGS;

FLOQUET CHARACTERISTIC EXPONENTS; FLOQUET-LYAPUNOV THEORY; SEMIANALYTICAL SENSITIVITY;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 0030108125     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.46941     Document Type: Article

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