Effect of decoupled fluid loading on nonlinear vibration of a flat plate

Numerical simulations of nonlinear responses of a flat plate subject to decoupled fluid loading are carried out. Under clamped boundary conditions and subject to forced vibration at its natural frequency corresponding to the (5,1) mode, the various response modes of the plate are determined. It is found that increasing the excitation amplitude, the response changed from periodic to chaotic. In addition, the fluid-wall shear stresses are found to change the response from linear to nonlinear and vice versa depending on their magnitudes. When a static pressure load is combined with fluid-wall shear stresses and low excitation amplitude, the resulting response was chaotic.