Nonlinear flight dynamics of very flexible aircraft

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1528-1545

  Shearer, Christopher M ^a,b,c,d   Cesnik, Carlos E S ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b USAF   (United States)

^c Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE AUTOMATA; LOW PASS FILTERS;

AEROELASTIC EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR BEAM; POTENTIAL-FLOW AERODYNAMICS;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 36348931197     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.27606     Document Type: Article

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