Effect of uncertainty on the bifurcation behavior of pitching airfoil stall flutter

Journal of Fluids and Structures

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 304-320

  Sarkar, S ^a   Witteveen, J A S ^b   Loeven, A ^b   Bijl, H ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flutter boundary; Galerkin polynomial chaos; Probabilistic collocation; Stall flutter; Uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS); GALERKIN METHODS; GAS DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STALL INDICATORS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

FLUTTER BOUNDARY; GALERKIN POLYNOMIAL CHAOS; PROBABILISTIC COLLOCATION; STALL FLUTTER; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 61849134912     PISSN: 08899746     EISSN: 10958622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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