MEMSDUKEPRATT School of engineering


publications by Jeffrey P Thomas.


Papers Published

  1. Kholodar, Denis B. and Thomas, Jeffrey P. and Dowell, Earl H. and Hall, Kenneth C., Parametric study of flutter for an airfoil in inviscid transonic flow, Journal of Aircraft, vol. 40 no. 2 (2003), pp. 303 - 313 .
    (last updated on 2007/04/07)

    Abstract:
    A parametric study of flutter was conducted for an airfoil in inviscid transonic flow. An inviscid computational flow dynamic harmonic balance aerodynamic-Euler-based code was used for the investigation. The computational efficiency of the time-linearized option of the harmonic balance aerodynamic model allows a much more thorough exploration of the parameter range than was previously achieved.

    Keywords:
    Transonic aerodynamics;Airfoils;Computational fluid dynamics;Harmonic analysis;Degrees of freedom (mechanics);

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