Active control of F/A-18 vertical tail buffeting using piezoelectric actuators

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 6, Issue , 2003, Pages 4427-4437

  Sheta, Essam F ^a   Moses, Robert W ^b   Huttsell, Lawrence J ^c   Harrand, Vincent J ^a  

^a CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMIC LOADS; AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMPENNAGES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW CONTROL; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

F/A-18 VERTICAL TAIL BUFFETING; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 0042009569     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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