导航

ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (4): 1119-1127.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2014.0221

• Aeroelasticity • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Analysis of nonlinear panel flutter

AN Xiaomin, XU Wei, XU Min   

  1. College of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
  • Received:2014-07-10 Revised:2014-09-02 Online:2015-04-15 Published:2014-09-17
  • Supported by:

    National Natural Science Foundation of China (11202165); Astronautic Technology Innovation Foundation; Astronautic Support Technology Foundation

Abstract:

Nonlinear panel flutter caused by the interaction between nonlinear fluid and geometrically nonlinear structure is studied by an improved computational fluid dynamics and computatienal structural dynamics (CFD/CSD) coupled program. A flux splitting scheme combined with implicit time marching technology and geometric conservation law is utilized to solve unsteady aerodynamic pressure; the finite element corotational theory is applied to modeling the geometric nonlinear two-dimensional and three-dimensional panels, and an approximate energy conservation algorithm is developed to obtain nonlinear structure response. The two solvers are connected by a second-order loosely coupled method and applied to the solution of panel flutter problems for supersonic, transonic and subsonic Mach numbers. A representative limited cycle oscillation appears when geometric nonlinearity and aerodynamic nonlinearity are considered. The flutter boundary and amplitude of limit cycle oscillation are discussed.

Key words: nonlinear aeroelasticity, limited cycle oscillation, panel flutter, geometrically nonlinearity, CFD/CSD coupled

CLC Number: