Effect of stiffness uncertainties on the flutter of a cantilever wing

AIAA Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 925-935

  Castravete, S C ^a,b   Ibrahim, R A ^a,c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CAELYNX   (United States)

^c Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROELASTIC WING; DYNAMIC INSTABILITY; KARHUNEN-LOVE EXPANSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; VORTEX FLOW; WINGS;

FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS);

EID: 44649114603     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.31692     Document Type: Article

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