Assessment of critical fuel configurations using robust flutter analysis

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2034-2039

  Heinze, Sebastian ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Division of Flight Dynamics   (Sweden)

^c AIAA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ROBUST CONTROL; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FUEL CONFIGURATIONS; STANDARD ANALYSIS TOOLS; TANK MODELS;

FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS);

EID: 38149030900     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.30500     Document Type: Article

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