Aeroelastic stability of trailing-edge flap helicopter rotors

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 236-243

  Shen, Jinwei ^a   Chopra, Inderjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMICS; DAMPING; DRAG; KINETIC ENERGY; STIFFNESS;

AEROELASTIC STABILITY; FLOQUET METHOD; ROTOR CONTROL SYSTEM STIFFNESS; TRAILING-EDGE FLAP BLADE SYSTEM;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0242526033     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/jahs.48.236     Document Type: Article

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