Robust flutter margins of an F/A-18 aircraft from aeroelastic flight data

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 597-604

  Lind, Rick ^a,b   Brenner, Marty ^a  

^a NASA DRYDEN FLIGHT RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SYSTEM STABILITY;

FLUTTER BOUNDARY;

RESEARCH AIRCRAFT;

EID: 0031139413     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.4082     Document Type: Article

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