Design optimization for improved soft in-plane tiltrotor aeroelastic stability in airplane mode

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1089-1099

  Paik, Jinho ^a,b   Gandhi, Farhan ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROELASTICITY; CONVERTIBLE HELICOPTERS; DAMPING; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS); STIFFNESS;

AEROELASTIC STABILITY; BASELINE CONFIGURATIONS; FREQUENCY CONSTRAINT; GRADIENT-BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATIONS; PARAMETRIC VARIATION; PLANE CONFIGURATIONS; SIMULTANEOUS REDUCTION; WHIRL-FLUTTER STABILITY;

WINGS;

EID: 77955548969     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.43212     Document Type: Article

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