Aeroelastic vibrations and stability of plates and shells (Q400554)

Aeroelasticity, an interdisciplinary subject concerned with dynamics, solid mechanics and fluid mechanics, focuses on modeling, analysis and simulations of dynamical behavior of structures subjected to aerodynamic loads. Flutter and vibration of structures in a gas flow is a typical example of practical importance. This book deals with flutter of plates and shallow shells with the emphasis on numerical aspects. The book consists of three parts, namely, flutter of plates, flutter of shallow shells, and numerical approaches to non-self-adjoint eigenvalue problems. The plate flutter is examined by using general spectral properties of the flutter operator and a numerical-analytical method is developed. Flutter of shallow shells is studied based on the piston theory with some corrections. The aeroelasticity problem is reduced to an elliptic eigenvalue problem, and algorithms are developed based on the smoothness of solutions to the equations of elliptic type. Essentially, this is a mathematical book, but the mathematical problems are treated with specific physical meanings. The aeroelastic vibrations and stability of plates and shells are described by elliptic partial differential equations associated with non-self-adjoint eigenvalue problems. Some numerical algorithms are developed with exponentially decaying errors. The general mathematical framework is proposed in a uniform and rigorous way. To make the mathematical treatment more accessible, a few examples are presented with detailed solutions. A rather comprehensive bibliography is given, which contains some references not in English. Nevertheless, the bibliography does not reflect all advances over the recent ten years. The book is addressed to teachers, students and researchers interested in the dynamics of thin-walled structures subjected to aerodynamic pressure, especially in analytical and computational aspects of this area of mechanics.