The secondary bifurcation of an aeroelastic airfoil motion: Effect of high harmonics

Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-49

  Liu, Liping ^a   Dowell, Earl H ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Airfoil motions; Cubic restoring forces; High order harmonic balance method; Perturbation; Secondary bifurcations

Indexed keywords

AIRFOIL MOTION; CUBIC RESTORING FORCES; HIGH-ORDER HARMONIC BALANCE METHOD; SECONDARY BIFURCATIONS;

AIRFOILS; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OSCILLATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; STIFFNESS;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 4444319322     PISSN: 0924090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:NODY.0000040033.85421.4d     Document Type: Article

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