Flutter Analysis of Rectangular Wings of Very Low Aspect Ratio

Flutter Analysis of Rectangular Wings of Very Low Aspect Ratio
Author: Robert William Fralich
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Total Pages: 652
Release: 1958
Genre: Aerofoils
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A flutter analysis, employing slender-body aerodynamic theory and thin-plate theory, is made for rectangular wings of very low aspect ratio with a constant thickness. The spanwise variation of wing deflection is assumed to be given by a parabola, and the chordwise variation is allowed complete freedom. The results show the vsriation of flutter speed and male shape with aspect ratio. Comparisons are made with additional resuits obtained by approximating the chordwise deflection shape by use of parabolic or cubic curves. The analysis shows that the cubic approximation gives good resuits for a ratio of chord to semispan less than 3.

Flutter of Low Aspect-ratio Wings: Calculation of pressure distribution for oscillating wings of arbitrary planform in subsonic flow by the kernel-function methods, by Pao-Tan Hsu

Flutter of Low Aspect-ratio Wings: Calculation of pressure distribution for oscillating wings of arbitrary planform in subsonic flow by the kernel-function methods, by Pao-Tan Hsu
Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Total Pages: 60
Release: 1957
Genre: Airplanes
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Flutter at Very High Speeds

Flutter at Very High Speeds
Author: Harry L. Runyan
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Total Pages: 16
Release: 1957
Genre: Aerodynamic heating
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This paper is concerned with a discussion of some of the problems of flutter and aeroelasticity that are or may be important at high speeds. Various theoretical procedures for treating high Mach number flutter are reviewed. Application of two of these methods, namely, the Van Dyke method and piston-theory method, is made to a specific example and compared with linear two- and three-dimensional results. It is shown that the effects of thickness and airfoil shape are destabilizing as compared with linear theory at high Mach number. In order to demonstrate the validity of these large predicted effects, experimental flutter results are shown for two rectangular wings at Mach numbers of 6.86 and 3. The results of nonlinear piston-theory calculations were in good agreement with experiment, whereas the results of using two- and three-dimensional linear theory were not. In addition, some results demonstrating the importance of including camber modes in a flutter analysis are shown, as well as a discussion of one case of flutter due to aerodynamic heating.

Technical Note

Technical Note
Author: United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
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Total Pages: 790
Release: 1958
Genre: Aeronautics
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Effect of Aspect Ratio on Undamped Torsional Oscillations of a Thin Rectangular Wing in Supersonic Flow

Effect of Aspect Ratio on Undamped Torsional Oscillations of a Thin Rectangular Wing in Supersonic Flow
Author: Charles E. Watkins
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Total Pages: 42
Release: 1949
Genre: Aerodynamics, Supersonic
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The velocity potential and aerodynamic-torsional moment coefficients based on the linearized equations of motion for small disturbances are derived for a rectangular wing by means of appropriate distributions of moving sources and doublets. The aerodynamic-torsional-moment coefficent to study the effect of aspect ratio on the undamped torsional oscillations of a finite rectangular wing. Decreasing the aspect ratio of the wing is found to have a highly stabilizing effect on the undamped torsional oscillations. The results of some selected calculations are presented in the figures that illustrate this fact.