Nonlinear aeroelasticity of a very flexible blended-wing-body aircraft

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1539-1553

  Su, Weihua ^a   Cesnik, Carlos E S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROELASTICITY; AIRCRAFT; AUTOMOBILE BODIES; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FLEXIBLE COUPLINGS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FLOW CONTROL; FREE FLIGHT; LIFT; NONLINEAR OPTICS; RIGID STRUCTURES; RIGID WINGS; SUBSONIC AERODYNAMICS; WIND TUNNELS;

AERODYNAMIC NON-LINEARITIES; AEROELASTIC STABILITY; BEAM FINITE ELEMENTS; BLENDED WING BODY AIRCRAFTS; EXPERIMENTAL MODELING; FLIGHT CONDITIONS; NONLINEAR AEROELASTICITY; RIGID-BODY MOTION;

FLEXIBLE WINGS;

EID: 78049354867     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.47317     Document Type: Article

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