The flapping-flag instability as a nonlinear eigenvalue problem

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Alben, Silas ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; RIGIDITY; STABILITY;

CLASSICAL MECHANISM; CLASSICAL PROBLEMS; COMPLEX CONJUGATES; NONLINEAR EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; PARAMETER SPACES; SHARP TRANSITION; STABILITY BOUNDARIES; WAVE NUMBER MODES;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 55849118759     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3000670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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