| Abstract: | The aeroelastic stability of one-dimensional porous panels with a Darcy boundary condition on its surface is examined theoretically. Analytical and numerical analyses demonstrate that a porous panel in a uniform, single-sided, incompressible flow becomes aeroelastically unstable via divergence. This primary route of instability is identical to the well-known mechanism for non-porous panels. However, the divergence speed of a porous panel is always greater than the non-porous limit and increases with a dimensionless porosity parameter formed by the aeroelastic system. Various chordwise porosity distributions along the panel are also investigated, where the uniformly-porous panel is shown to be the most stable configuration. The generality and robustness of the primary divergence instability for porous panels is established analytically using a simple but general flutter analysis approach based on the Routh–Hurwitz stability criterion. |
