High-frequency plate flutter

Earlier, using the global instability method, the stability of a strip plate in a supersonic gas flow was investigated. In addition to the classical (low-frequency) flutter developing upon the interaction between the plate oscillation modes, a novel (high-frequency) flutter type in which the oscillations are unimodal was detected. In the present study, the effect on the high-frequency flutter of the plate width (earlier only an asymptotic analysis for a width tending to infinity was performed), its damping characteristics, and the presence of a gas at rest on the side opposite the flow is investigated.     

High-frequency flutter of a rectangular plate

In our recent study of strip plate flutter, two flutter types, low-and high-frequency, were revealed. The first arises due to interaction of the oscillation modes and has been investigated in detail in numerous studies using an approximate piston theory. The high-frequency flutter, detected for the first time, is a consequence of the presence of negative aerodynamic damping and cannot be obtained using the piston theory. In the present study, the high-frequency flutter of a rectangular plate is investigated.     

Numerical investigation of supersonic plate flutter using the exact aerodynamic theory

In classical investigations of panel flutter it is usually assumed that the gas pressure acting on the plate can be calculated within the framework of the piston theory, an approximation exact for high Mach numbers. The loss of stability revealed in these investigations is of the “coupled” type, involving the interaction of two oscillation modes. Recently, the use of asymptotic methods revealed another single-mode type of stability loss, which cannot be obtained within the framework of the piston theory. In the present study this type of stability loss is investigated numerically using the Bubnov-Galerkin method.     

Linear and Nonlinear Aerodynamic Theory of Interaction between Flexible Long Structure and Wind

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结构非线性颤振半主动抑制

本文利用数字仿真技术，对结构非线性颤振半主动抑制－颤振驯化方案进行了探讨，仿真结果表明，对于一定的结构非线性类型和参数，利用非线性颤振的极限环特性，可使系统的颤振响应被抑制在幅值很小的稳定域内，从而达到减缓颤振的目的。     

Experimental observation of single mode panel flutter in supersonic gas flow

Single mode flutter is a type of panel flutter, which cannot be analyzed theoretically using conventional piston theory, and for this reason it is studied very little. No previous experiments, where this type of panel flutter was clearly detected, were conducted. In this paper a plate, designed such that it cannot experience “classical” coupled-mode type flutter, but can experience single mode flutter, is tested. Analysis of the tested data clearly indicates the occurrence of single mode panel flutter.     

On bimodal flutter behavior of a flexible airfoil

The dynamic aeroelastic behavior of an elastically supported airfoil is studied in order to investigate the possibilities of increasing critical flutter speed by exploiting its chord-wise flexibility. The flexible airfoil concept is implemented using a rigid airfoil-shaped leading edge, and a flexible thin laminated composite plate conformally attached to its trailing edge. The flutter behavior is studied in terms of the number of laminate plies used in the composite plate for a given aeroelastic system configuration. The flutter behavior is predicted by using an eigenfunction expansion approach which is also used to design a laminated plate in order to attain superior flutter characteristics. Such an airfoil is characterized by two types of flutter responses, the classical airfoil flutter and the plate flutter. Analysis shows that a significant increase in the critical flutter speed can be achieved with high plunge and low pitch stiffness in the region where the aeroelastic system exhibits a bimodal flutter behavior, e.g., where the airfoil flutter and the plate flutter occur simultaneously. The predicted flutter behavior of a flexible airfoil is experimentally verified by conducting a series of systematic aeroelastic system configurations wind tunnel flutter campaigns. The experimental investigations provide, for each type of flutter, a measured flutter response, including the one with indicated bimodal behavior.     

Flutter of a Wide Strip Plate in a Supersonic Gas Flow

The stability of an elastic plate in the form of a wide strip in a supersonic inviscid gas flow is investigated in the linear approximation. An expression for the dependence of the pressure on the plate deflection, asymptotically exact for wide plates, is used. Two qualitatively different instability types are obtained: flutter with respect to a single oscillatory mode due to negative aerodynamic damping and flutter of a related type due to the interaction of oscillatory modes. For each type the stability criterion and the frequency at which the oscillation amplitude grows most intensely are found.     

非匀质地基上正交异性矩形厚板的动态稳定

本文把伽辽金法和富里哀级数相结合,用以分析非匀质地基上的自由边正交异性矩形厚板的动态稳定。在板的自由边上作用着均匀分布的非保守跟随力,力的方向受到控制,使其与加载边的转角成定比。分析基于理论,因此包括了剪切变形的影响。力是非保守的,会有颤振和发散两种形式的失稳,力是保守的,只会有发散形式的失稳。     

适用于几何非线性气动弹性分析的结构动力学降阶模型方法研究

几何非线性是壁板颤振和大展弦比机翼气动弹性等问题的一个主要特征,在进行数值仿真分析时往往需要采用商业非线性有限元求解器,存在计算量大和耦合迭代策略不易控制等问题。本文发展了一种适用于几何非线性的结构动力学降阶模型(CSD-ROM),利用广义坐标的非线性多项式表征非线性内力,采用参数识别方法获取多项式系数,并通过增加额外的线性模态来改善模型预测精度。基于此方法,分别针对壁板颤振、切尖三角翼的CFD/CSD-ROM非线性颤振问题开展了时域响应分析。计算结果表明,通过CSD-ROM计算出的壁板颤振速度为590 m/s,颤振频率为174 Hz,与有限元结果误差分别为0.8%和1.7%。马赫数0.879时切尖三角翼的颤振动压预测结果为2.25 psi,与非线性有限元相比的误差为3.8%。本文采用的非线性和线性模态基底组合方法,在保证计算精度的基础上可有效降低训练样本数量,一定程度上可替代非线性有限元开展气动弹性分析。     

变角度纤维复合材料层合斜板的颤振分析

假设纤维方向角沿层合板的长度方向线性变化，研究了变角度纤维复合材料层合斜板的颤振．通过坐标变换将斜板变换为正方形板，采用层合板表面连续变化的速度环量来模拟空气对其的作用，速度环量分布利用Cauchy积分公式计算．建立了系统的Lagrange方程并采用Ritz法得到了层合板的自振频率和颤振/不稳定性分离临界速度．通过数值算例验证了本文模型和方法的正确性和收敛性，分析了各个铺层内纤维方向角的变化对自振频率和颤振/不稳定性分离临界速度的影响．研究结果表明，通过纤维的变角度铺设，可有效地提高层合板的基频和颤振/不稳定性分离临界速度．经合理设计的变角度复合材料层合板具有抑制颤振的作用．     

带外挂二元翼极限环颤振的高次线化分析

本文针对在外挂上带有初偏间隙型非线性刚度的二元翼带外挂系统的极限环颤振,进行KBM法二次渐近解等效线化分析.结果表明,在某些情况下,用二次渐近解等效线化分析极限环颤振,其结果与数值积分结果基本一致,而一次渐近解等效线化分析则得不出满意的结果.这就是说,二次解等效线化比一次解等效线化更为可靠.     

Numerical Investigation of the Flutter of a Rectangular Plate

The flutter of a rectangular plate with an arbitrary direction of the velocity vector relative to the plate side is studied. A numerical no-saturation algorithm is constructed to solve the eigenvalue problem. Calculation results for the critical flutter velocity and corresponding eigenmodes are given.     

INCREMENTAL HARMONIC BALANCE METHOD FOR AIRFOIL FLUTTER WITH MULTIPLE STRONG NONLINEARITIES

The incremental harmonic balance method was extended to analyze the flutter of systems with multiple structural strong nonlinearities. The strongly nonlinear cubic plunging and pitching stiffness terms were considered in the flutter equations of two-dimensional airfoil. First, the equations were transferred into matrix form, then the vibration process was divided into the persistent incremental processes of vibration moments. And the expression of their solutions could be obtained by using a certain amplitude as control parameter in the harmonic balance process, and then the bifurcation, limit cycle flutter phenomena and the number of harmonic terms were analyzed. Finally, numerical results calculated by the Runge-Kutta method were given to verify the results obtained by the proposed procedure. It has been shown that the incremental harmonic method is effective and precise in the analysis of strongly nonlinear flutter with multiple structural nonlinearities.     

Deteriorated Geometrical Stiffness for Higher Order Finite Elements with Application to Panel Flutter

Higher order elements were first design for linear problems where, in certain situations, they present advantages over the lower order elements. A method to efficiently extend their use to geometrical nonlinear problems as panel flutter and postbuckling behavior is presented. The chaotic and limit-cycle oscillations of an isotropic plate are obtained based on direct integration of the discretized equation of motion. The plate is modeled using the von Karman theory and the geometrical nonlinearities are separated in a nonlinear term of the first kind which manifests especially in the prebuckling and buckling regimes, and a nonlinear term of the second kind which is responsible for the postbuckling behavior. A fifth order, fully compatible element has been used to model thin plates while the inplane loads where introduced through a membrane element. The aerodynamics was modeled using the first order 'piston theory. The method introduces the concept of a deteriorated form of the second geometric matrix which is equivalent to neglecting higher order terms in the strain energy of the plate. This allows for a drastic reduction in the computational effort with no observable loss of accuracy. Well established results in the literature are used to validate the method.     

Flutter and resonances of a flag near a free surface

We investigate the effects of a nearby free surface on the stability of a flexible plate in axial flow. Confinement by rigid boundaries is known to affect flag flutter thresholds and fluttering dynamics significantly, and this work considers the effects of a more general confinement involving a deformable free surface. To this end, a local linear stability is proposed for a flag in axial uniform flow and parallel to a free surface, using one-dimensional beam and potential flow models to revisit this classical fluid–structure interaction problem. The physical behaviour of the confining free surface is characterized by the Froude number, corresponding to the ratio of the incoming flow velocity to that of the gravity waves. After presenting the simplified limit of infinite span (i.e. two-dimensional problem), the results are generalized to include finite-span and lateral confinement effects. In both cases, three unstable regimes are identified for varying Froude number. Rigidly-confined flutter is observed for low Froude number, i.e. when the free surface behaves as a rigid wall, and is equivalent to the classical problem of the confined flag. When the flow and wave velocities are comparable, a new instability is observed before the onset of flutter (i.e. at lower reduced flow speed) and results from the resonance of a structural bending wave and one of the fundamental modes of surface gravity waves. Finally, for large Froude number (low effect of gravity), flutter is observed with significant but passive deformation of the free surface in response of the flag’s displacement.     

Study of the single-mode flutter of a rectangular plate in the case of variable amplification of the eigenmode along the plate

In [1] the single-mode (high-frequency) flutter of a plate was investigated in the case in which the eigenmodes in a vacuum are associated with symmetric trajectories of disturbance propagation along the plate. In the case of nonsymmetric trajectories a handicap to such a study is presented by the fact that the flow-induced oscillation buildup turns out to be different at different points on the plate, so that the “smearing” of the eigenfunction under the action of elasticity forces must be taken into account. In this study, this case is considered in detail.     

二元机翼颤振的分叉点类别的判定

应用中心流形理论将二元机翼颤振这一四维系统降为二维系统，用后继函数判别法对分叉点的真假中心及稳定性问题进行了分析．     

A general modal frequency-domain vortex lattice method for aeroelastic analyses

The generalized aerodynamic force (GAF) matrix is derived for the Unsteady Vortex Lattice Method (UVLM) without the assumption of out-of-plane dynamics. As a result, the approach naturally includes in-plane motion and forces unlike the doublet lattice method (DLM). The derived UVLM GAF is therefore applicable to industry-standard techniques for aeroelastic stability analyses, such as the p–k method. In this work, the fluid–structure interpolation is performed with radial basis functions for surface interpolation. The generalized aerodynamic forces computed with the UVLM are verified against the DLM from NASTRAN on a simple flat plate configuration. The ability of the UVLM to include steady loads is verified with a T-tail flutter case and the results confirm the importance of including steady loads for T-tail flutter analysis. The modal frequency domain VLM therefore provides the same level of efficiency and accuracy than the DLM, but without the restrictions and with the ability to handle complex geometries. It is therefore a viable replacement to the DLM.     

激波主导流动下壁板的热气动弹性稳定性理论分析

针对激波主导流动下弹性壁板的热气动弹性稳定性分析问题,建立了基于当地活塞流理论的分析模型,并用数值仿真方法来验证其正确性. 首先基于Hamilton原理和Von-Karman大变形理论,建立壁板的热气动弹性运动方程,其中假设壁板受热后温度均匀分布,激波前后区域的气动力模型采用当地一阶活塞流理论;利用Galerkin方法将具有连续参数系统的偏微分颤振方程离散为有限个自由度的常微分方程;基于李雅普诺夫间接法将非线性颤振方程组在平衡位置处进行线化,再用Routh-Hurwits判据来判断线性系统的稳定性,从而来推论出非线性颤振系统的气动弹性稳定性. 在时域中采用龙格--库塔法对非线性颤振方程进行数值积分,得到壁板非线性颤振响应的时间历程,与理论分析结果进行对比. 研究结果表明,壁板受到斜激波冲击时,更容易发生颤振失稳,并且激波强度越大,极限环幅值和频率越大;激波主导流场中的壁板失稳边界不同于传统单纯超声速气流中壁板颤振的失稳边界;只有在斜激波前后不同的动压值都满足颤振稳定性边界的条件下,壁板才可能保持其气动弹性稳定性.