Stall flutter prediction techniques for fan and compressor blades

Journal of Propulsion and Power

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 800-806

  Capece, V R ^a,c   El Aini, Y M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRATT AND WHITNEY   (United States)

^c Dept of Mech and Aero Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; CASCADES (FLUID MECHANICS); COMPRESSORS; DAMPING; FANS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIFT; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; UNSTEADY FLOW;

CHORDWISE DEFORMATION; COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; INTERIM SEMIEMPIRICAL METHODS; MOMENT COEFFICIENT; STALL FLUTTER PREDICTION; UNSTEADY AERODYNAMIC MODELS;

FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS);

EID: 0030194990     PISSN: 07484658     EISSN: 15333876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.24104     Document Type: Article

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