Aeroelastic Analysis of Highly Flexible Wings with Linearized Frequency-Domain Aerodynamics
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Gradient Based Optimization of Chaotic Panel Flutter
This work considers the gradient-based optimization of an aeroelastic panel structure undergoing chaotic vibrations. A previously-presented adaptive time-marching scheme is used to stabilize the design sensitivities which would normally grow unbounded in time, owing to intermittent unstable eigenvalues of the Jacobian. The design optimization entails forcing the root mean square (RMS) of the panel vibration to some specified value, in a way that minimizes the deviation of the structural thickness variables from their uniform baseline values. Depending on the location of the RMS constraint, the output physics maybe chaotic, limit cycle oscillations, or statically buckled.
Bret Kennedy Stanford↗