Aeroelastic modeling of trailing-edge-flap helicopter rotors including actuator dynamics

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1465-1472

  Shen, Jinwei ^a,b   Chopra, Inderjit ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; HELICOPTER ROTORS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; TORSIONAL STRESS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VIBRATION CONTROL;

AEROELASTIC MODELING; FLAPS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; TORSION MOMENTS;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 10944267141     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.14431     Document Type: Article

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