Shil'nikov homoclinic dynamics and the escape from roll autorotation in an F-4 model

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 356, Issue 1745, 1998, Pages 2241-2256

  Lowenberg, M H ^a   Champneys, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autorotation; Flight dynamics; Global bifurcation; Nonlinear dynamics; Numerical continuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 3043001368     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1998.0272     Document Type: Article

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