Course ID
038752
Course Description
This course is designed to teach students interested in flight mechanics the basic principles of modern aeroelasticity. A review of structural dynamics includes mechanical vibrations, modal representations, and transient response. Quasi-steady and unsteady aerodynamics of pitching and plunging airfoils and wings are discussed. Presentation of steady and dynamic aeroelastic phenomena of divergence, aileron reversal, flutter, and airload redistribution. Approximate solution methods are stressed, followed by discussions of aeroelastic tailoring and aeroelastic analysis software.
Graduate students are assigned term projects to investigate divergence and flutter characteristics of the swept back or swept forward wing based on p-method and the transient fluid-structure analysis with the help of ANSYS/FLUENT software. Undergraduate students will analyze divergence and flutter characteristics of straight trapezoidal wings using low-order p-k method and quasi-steady thin airfoil theory.
Graduate students are assigned term projects to investigate divergence and flutter characteristics of the swept back or swept forward wing based on p-method and the transient fluid-structure analysis with the help of ANSYS/FLUENT software. Undergraduate students will analyze divergence and flutter characteristics of straight trapezoidal wings using low-order p-k method and quasi-steady thin airfoil theory.
Min Units
3
Max Units
3
Repeatable for Credit
No
Grading Basis
GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E
Career
Graduate
Course Requisites
May be convened with
AME423
Component
Lecture
Optional Component
No