Nonlinear aeroelastic analysis of airfoils: Bifurcation and chaos

Progress in Aerospace Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 205-334

  Lee, B H K ^a   Price, S J ^b   Wong, Y S ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CHAOS THEORY; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SUBSONIC AERODYNAMICS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

AERODYNAMIC NONLINEARITIES;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 0033115309     PISSN: 03760421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-0421(98)00015-3     Document Type: Article

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