A numerical study on active control for tiltrotor whirl flutter stability augmentation

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 244-254

  Mueller, Joerg P ^a   Gourinat, Yves ^b   Ferrer, Rogelio ^a   Krysinski, Tomasz ^a   Kerdreux, Benjamin ^a  

^a EUROCOPTER DEUTSCHLAND GMBH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUGMENT WHIRL FLUTTER STABILITY; LINEAR QUADRATIC GAUSSIAN REGULATOR; TILTROTOR AIRCRAFT;

AIRCRAFT; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; DAMPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROTATION; WIND TUNNELS; WINGS;

FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS);

EID: 33748056455     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/1.3092885     Document Type: Article

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