Studies in nonlinear aeroelasticity (Q4040757)

(From the authors' preface:) This book is devided into nine chapters. In Chapter 0, the subject of nonlinear aeroelasticity is defined, and an overview is provided. Various topics are discussed qualitatively including static and dynamic nonlinearities, with particular reference to the literature on flutter on an airfoil. In Chapter I, the fundamentals of continuum mechanics are reviewed. Methods for describing motion and fluid structure interaction, fundamental equations of hydromechanics, fundamental relations of the nonlinear theory of thin elastic shells, and conditions on the surfaces of large discontinuities are considered. In Chapter II, a general formulation and a classification of interaction problems of a shell and fluid are given. The discussion treats kinematic and dynamic conditions at a contact surface, reduction of contact conditions to the original surface, classification of aeroelasticity problems, interaction for medium bending of a shell, interaction for large and small bending of a shell, and interaction between a plate and a viscous fluid. Chapter III, turns to the first class of aeroelastic problems, the behaviour of a cylindrical shell or curved plate with axis transverse to an incompressible flow. Static bending of a cylindrical shell, dynamic instability of a cylindrical shell, behaviour of a curved plate, separated flow, and some experimental results are discussed here. In Chapter IV, the problem of interaction of a fluid with a permeable shell is considered. Such a physical model is of interest with respect to parachute dynamics. - Chapter V introduces the topic of self-excited, nonlinear oscillations of airfoils, beams, plates, and shells in incompressible and compressible flow. Three major topics are considered: effect of structural nonlinearities of plates and shells on dynamic instability, fluid mechanical nonlinearities and bluff body oscillators, and aerodynamic nonlinearities and their effect on airfoil flutter. The last of these is considered more fully in Chapter VI. The first is explored in a broader context in Chapter VII. In Chapter VIII, several related problems involving chaotic oscillations in mechanical systems are considered. In detail are discussed free and forced reponse of beams (plates and shells) in the presence of fluid flow and turbulence within the framework of the Lorenz equations as a nonlinear chaotic, pseudo limit cycle oscillation. In Chapter VIII, the literature on the effects of compliant walls on transition and turbulence is critically reviewed. The book has also three appendices which contain important background discussions relevant to the main themes.