Simulation of the viscous aeroelastic response of a membrane airfoil to a harmonically varying freestream

39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Smith, Richard W ^a   Wright, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b Streamline Numerics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; AIRFOILS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LAMINAR FLOW; MEMBRANES; MESH GENERATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS;

AEROELASTIC PROBLEMS; AEROELASTIC RESPONSE; ARBITRARY LAGRANGIAN EULERIAN METHOD; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER-STOKES; LAMINAR FLOW REGIMES; MIXED ELEMENT MESHES; MOVING BOUNDARY PROBLEMS; NON-DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS;

AEROELASTICITY;

EID: 85086618984     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2001-857     Document Type: Conference Paper

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