Engineering Transactions, 47, 1, pp. 39–55, 1999
10.24423/Engtrans.613.1999

A Certain Approximate Solutions of Nonlinear Flutter Equation

J. Grzędziński
Polish Academy of Sciences
Poland

A nonlinear integro-differential flutter equation of a thin airfoil placed in an incompressible flow is solved by two different methods. The first method involves the center-manifold reduction and gives the asymptotic limit cycle amplitude and frequency in terms of power series expansions. The second method replaces the integro-differential equation by an approximate set of first-order ordinary differential equations which are solved by using bifurcation and continuation software package. A comparison of these two methods shows that the domain of a good agreement between them varies significantly depending on the parameters of the problem.
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DOI: 10.24423/Engtrans.613.1999