This paper presents a novel mechanical attachment, i.e., nonlinear energy sink (NES), for suppressing the limit cycle oscillation (LCO) of an airfoil. The dynamic responses of a two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) air...This paper presents a novel mechanical attachment, i.e., nonlinear energy sink (NES), for suppressing the limit cycle oscillation (LCO) of an airfoil. The dynamic responses of a two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) airfoil coupled with an NES are studied with the harmonic balance method. Different structure parameters of the NES, i.e., mass ratio between the NES and airfoil, NES offset, NES damping, and nonlinear stiffness in the NES, are chosen for studying the effect of the LCO suppression on an aeroelastic system with a supercritical Hopf bifurcation or subcritical Hopf bifurcation, respectively. The results show that the structural parameters of the NES have different influence on the supercritical Hopf bifurcation system and the subcritical Hopf bifurcation system.展开更多
The dynamics of the confinement transition from L mode to H mode(LH) is investigated in detail theoretically via the extended three-wave coupling model describing the interaction of turbulence and zonal flow(ZF) f...The dynamics of the confinement transition from L mode to H mode(LH) is investigated in detail theoretically via the extended three-wave coupling model describing the interaction of turbulence and zonal flow(ZF) for the first time.Thereinto, turbulence is divided into a positive-frequency(PF) wave and a negative-frequency(NF) one, and the gradient of pressure is added as the auxiliary energy for the system. The LH confinement transition is observed for a sufficiently high input energy. Moreover, it is found that the rotation direction of the limit cycle oscillation(LCO) of PF wave and pressure gradient is reversed during the transition. The mechanism is illustrated by exploring the wave phases. The results presented here provide a new insight into the analysis of the LH transition, which is helpful for the experiments on the fusion devices.展开更多
As the amplitude of the unsteady flow oscillation is large or large changes occur in the mean background flow such as limit cycle oscillation,the traditional proper orthogonal decomposition reduced order model based o...As the amplitude of the unsteady flow oscillation is large or large changes occur in the mean background flow such as limit cycle oscillation,the traditional proper orthogonal decomposition reduced order model based on linearized time or frequency domain small disturbance solvers can not capture the main nonlinear features.A new nonlinear reduced order model based on the dynamically nonlinear flow equation was investigated.The nonlinear second order snapshot equation in the time domain for proper orthogonal decomposition basis construction was obtained from the Taylor series expansion of the flow solver.The NLR 7301 airfoil configuration and Goland+ wing/store aeroelastic model were used to validate the capability and efficiency of the new nonlinear reduced order model.The simulation results indicate that the proposed new reduced order model can capture the limit cycle oscillation of aeroelastic system very well,while the traditional proper orthogonal decomposition reduced order model will lose effectiveness.展开更多
The Hopf bifurcations of an airfoil flutter system with a cubic nonlinearity are investigated, with the flow speed as the bifurcation parameter. The center manifold theory and complex normal form method are Used to ob...The Hopf bifurcations of an airfoil flutter system with a cubic nonlinearity are investigated, with the flow speed as the bifurcation parameter. The center manifold theory and complex normal form method are Used to obtain the bifurcation equation. Interestingly, for a certain linear pitching stiffness the Hopf bifurcation is both supercritical and subcritical. It is found, mathematically, this is caused by the fact that one coefficient in the bifurcation equation does not contain the first power of the bifurcation parameter. The solutions of the bifurcation equation are validated by the equivalent linearization method and incremental harmonic balance method.展开更多
The nonlinear aeroelastic response of a two-degree-of-freedom airfoil with freeplay and cubic nonlinearities in supersonic flows is investigated. The second-order piston theory is used to analyze a double-wedge airfoi...The nonlinear aeroelastic response of a two-degree-of-freedom airfoil with freeplay and cubic nonlinearities in supersonic flows is investigated. The second-order piston theory is used to analyze a double-wedge airfoil. Then, the fold bifurcation and the amplitude jump phenomenon are detected by the averaging method and the multi-variable Floquet theory. The analyticall results are further verified by numerical simulations. Finally, the influence of the freeplay parameters on the aeroelastic response is analyzed in detail.展开更多
The paper presents a cantilevered composite wing, aeroelastic characteristics of idealized as a composite flat plate laminate. The composite laminate was made from woven glass fibers with epoxy matrix. The elastic and...The paper presents a cantilevered composite wing, aeroelastic characteristics of idealized as a composite flat plate laminate. The composite laminate was made from woven glass fibers with epoxy matrix. The elastic and dynamic properties of the laminate were determined experimentally for aeroelastic calculations. Aeroelastic wind tunnel testing of the laminate was performed and the result showed that flutter, a dynamic instability occurred. The cantilevered laminate also displayed limit cycle amplitude, post-flutter oscillation. The experimental flutter velocity and frequency were verified by our computational analysis.展开更多
The nonlinear oscillatory phenomenon has been observed in the system of immune response, which corresponds to the limit cycles in the mathematical models. We prove that the system simulating an immune response studied...The nonlinear oscillatory phenomenon has been observed in the system of immune response, which corresponds to the limit cycles in the mathematical models. We prove that the system simulating an immune response studied by Huang has at least three limit cycles in the system. The conditions for the multiple limit cycles are useful in analyzing the nonlinear oscillation in immune response.展开更多
Experimental folding fin models with an adjustable free-play are tested in a wind tunnel.The fin structure is modeled using the free-interface component mode synthesis method,and its free-play is modeled as four indep...Experimental folding fin models with an adjustable free-play are tested in a wind tunnel.The fin structure is modeled using the free-interface component mode synthesis method,and its free-play is modeled as four independent nonlinear springs with asymmetric stiffness.A nonplanar unsteady vortex-lattice method considering compressibility is employed to address nonlinear deformation and high subsonic flow.Surface spline interpolation is improved through projection and partition.The aeroelastic characteristics of folding fins with different free-play magnitudes,initial conditions and elastic-axis positions are analyzed using an established time-marching method because of its relatively small computation scale and high precision.The results show good consistency among the presented method,the wind tunnel test and the harmonic balance method.There is a negative correlation between the critical speed of divergent motion and the ratio of the initial condition to the free-play magnitude.If either the free-play magnitude or the initial condition is extreme(tiny or vast),the system nonlinearity degenerates to linearity.Generally,the flutter prevention design of a linear model can be applied to a nonlinear model,such as moving the elastic-axis position aftward.The presented fin configuration exhibits an unstable limit cycle oscillation because the orders of coupled flutter modes do not change with variations in equivalent linear stiffness.展开更多
Limit cycle oscillations (LCOs) as well as nonlinear aeroelastic analysis of a 3-DOF aeroelastic airfoil motion with cubic restoring moments in the pitch degree of freedom are investigated. Aeroelastic equations of ...Limit cycle oscillations (LCOs) as well as nonlinear aeroelastic analysis of a 3-DOF aeroelastic airfoil motion with cubic restoring moments in the pitch degree of freedom are investigated. Aeroelastic equations of an airfoil with control surface in an incompressible potential flow are presented in the time domain. The harmonic balance (HB) method is utilized to calculate the LCO frequency and amplitude for the airfoil. Also the semi-analytical method has revealed the presence of stable and unstable limit cycles, along with stability reversal in the neighborhood of a Hopf bifurcation. The system response is determined by nu- merically integrating the governing equations using a standard Runge-Kutta algorithm and the obtained results are compared with the HB method. Also the results by the third order HB (HB3) method for control surface are consistent with the other numerical solution. Finally, by combining the numerical and the HB methods, types of bifiarcation, be it supercritical, subcritical, or diver- gent flutter area are identified.展开更多
The equivalent linearization method (ELM) is modified to investigate the nonlinear flut- ter system of an airfoil with a cubic damping. After obtaining the linearization quantity of the cubic nonlinearity by the ELM...The equivalent linearization method (ELM) is modified to investigate the nonlinear flut- ter system of an airfoil with a cubic damping. After obtaining the linearization quantity of the cubic nonlinearity by the ELM, an equivalent system can be deduced and then investigated by linear flut- ter analysis methods. Different from the routine procedures of the ELM, the frequency rather than the amplitude of limit cycle oscillation (LCO) is chosen as an active increment to produce bifurca- tion charts. Numerical examples show that this modification makes the ELM much more efficient. Meanwhile, the LCOs obtained by the ELM are in good agreement with numerical solutions. The nonlinear damping can delay the occurrence of secondary bifurcation. On the other hand, it has marginal influence on bifurcation characteristics or LCOs.展开更多
Active stability augmentation system is an attractive and promising technology to suppress flutter and limit cycle oscillation (LCO). In order to design a good active control law, the control plant model with low orde...Active stability augmentation system is an attractive and promising technology to suppress flutter and limit cycle oscillation (LCO). In order to design a good active control law, the control plant model with low order and high accuracy must be provided, which is one of the most important key points. The traditional model is based on low fidelity aerodynamics model such as panel method, which is unsuitable for transonic flight regime. The physics-based high fidelity tools, reduced order model (ROM) and CFD/CSD coupled aeroservoelastic solver are used to design the active control law. The Volterra/ROM is applied to constructing the low order state space model for the nonlinear unsteady aerodynamics and static output feedback method is used to active control law design. The detail of the new method is demonstrated by the Goland+ wing/store system. The simulation results show that the effectiveness of the designed active augmentation system, which can suppress the flutter and LCO successfully.展开更多
Flutter is a self‐excited vibration under the interaction of the inertial force,aero-dynamic force,and elastic force of the structure.After the flutter occurs,the aircraft structures will exhibit limit cycle oscillat...Flutter is a self‐excited vibration under the interaction of the inertial force,aero-dynamic force,and elastic force of the structure.After the flutter occurs,the aircraft structures will exhibit limit cycle oscillation,which will cause catastrophic accidents or fatigue damage to the structures.Therefore,it is of great theoretical and practical significance to study the aeroelastic characteristics and flutter control for improving the aeroelastic stability of aircraft structures.This paper reviews the recent advances in aeroelastic analysis and flutter control of wings and panel structures.The me-chanism of aeroelastic flutter of wings and panels is presented.The research methods of aeroelastic flutter for different structures developed in recent years are briefly summarized.Various control strategies including the linear and nonlinear control algorithms as well as the active flutter control results of wings and panels are presented.Finally,the paper ends with conclusions,which highlight challenges of the development in aeroelastic analysis and flutter control,and provide a brief outlook on the future investigations.This study aims to present a comprehensive under-standing of aeroelastic analysis and flutter control.It can also provide guidance on the design of new wings and panel structures for improving their aeroelastic stability.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11172199)the KeyProgram of Tianjin Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11JCZDJC25400)
文摘This paper presents a novel mechanical attachment, i.e., nonlinear energy sink (NES), for suppressing the limit cycle oscillation (LCO) of an airfoil. The dynamic responses of a two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) airfoil coupled with an NES are studied with the harmonic balance method. Different structure parameters of the NES, i.e., mass ratio between the NES and airfoil, NES offset, NES damping, and nonlinear stiffness in the NES, are chosen for studying the effect of the LCO suppression on an aeroelastic system with a supercritical Hopf bifurcation or subcritical Hopf bifurcation, respectively. The results show that the structural parameters of the NES have different influence on the supercritical Hopf bifurcation system and the subcritical Hopf bifurcation system.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11305010 and 11475026)the Joint Foundation of the National Natural Science FoundationChina Academy of Engineering Physics(Grant No.U1530153)
文摘The dynamics of the confinement transition from L mode to H mode(LH) is investigated in detail theoretically via the extended three-wave coupling model describing the interaction of turbulence and zonal flow(ZF) for the first time.Thereinto, turbulence is divided into a positive-frequency(PF) wave and a negative-frequency(NF) one, and the gradient of pressure is added as the auxiliary energy for the system. The LH confinement transition is observed for a sufficiently high input energy. Moreover, it is found that the rotation direction of the limit cycle oscillation(LCO) of PF wave and pressure gradient is reversed during the transition. The mechanism is illustrated by exploring the wave phases. The results presented here provide a new insight into the analysis of the LH transition, which is helpful for the experiments on the fusion devices.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10902082)New Faculty Research Foundation of Xi’an Jiaotong University
文摘As the amplitude of the unsteady flow oscillation is large or large changes occur in the mean background flow such as limit cycle oscillation,the traditional proper orthogonal decomposition reduced order model based on linearized time or frequency domain small disturbance solvers can not capture the main nonlinear features.A new nonlinear reduced order model based on the dynamically nonlinear flow equation was investigated.The nonlinear second order snapshot equation in the time domain for proper orthogonal decomposition basis construction was obtained from the Taylor series expansion of the flow solver.The NLR 7301 airfoil configuration and Goland+ wing/store aeroelastic model were used to validate the capability and efficiency of the new nonlinear reduced order model.The simulation results indicate that the proposed new reduced order model can capture the limit cycle oscillation of aeroelastic system very well,while the traditional proper orthogonal decomposition reduced order model will lose effectiveness.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.10772202)the Doctoral Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (No.20050558032)the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Nos.07003680 and 05003295)
文摘The Hopf bifurcations of an airfoil flutter system with a cubic nonlinearity are investigated, with the flow speed as the bifurcation parameter. The center manifold theory and complex normal form method are Used to obtain the bifurcation equation. Interestingly, for a certain linear pitching stiffness the Hopf bifurcation is both supercritical and subcritical. It is found, mathematically, this is caused by the fact that one coefficient in the bifurcation equation does not contain the first power of the bifurcation parameter. The solutions of the bifurcation equation are validated by the equivalent linearization method and incremental harmonic balance method.
文摘The nonlinear aeroelastic response of a two-degree-of-freedom airfoil with freeplay and cubic nonlinearities in supersonic flows is investigated. The second-order piston theory is used to analyze a double-wedge airfoil. Then, the fold bifurcation and the amplitude jump phenomenon are detected by the averaging method and the multi-variable Floquet theory. The analyticall results are further verified by numerical simulations. Finally, the influence of the freeplay parameters on the aeroelastic response is analyzed in detail.
基金IRPA grant number 09-02-04-0899 EA001 from the Ministry of Science,Technology and Innovation,Malaysia
文摘The paper presents a cantilevered composite wing, aeroelastic characteristics of idealized as a composite flat plate laminate. The composite laminate was made from woven glass fibers with epoxy matrix. The elastic and dynamic properties of the laminate were determined experimentally for aeroelastic calculations. Aeroelastic wind tunnel testing of the laminate was performed and the result showed that flutter, a dynamic instability occurred. The cantilevered laminate also displayed limit cycle amplitude, post-flutter oscillation. The experimental flutter velocity and frequency were verified by our computational analysis.
文摘The nonlinear oscillatory phenomenon has been observed in the system of immune response, which corresponds to the limit cycles in the mathematical models. We prove that the system simulating an immune response studied by Huang has at least three limit cycles in the system. The conditions for the multiple limit cycles are useful in analyzing the nonlinear oscillation in immune response.
基金This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.12102027).
文摘Experimental folding fin models with an adjustable free-play are tested in a wind tunnel.The fin structure is modeled using the free-interface component mode synthesis method,and its free-play is modeled as four independent nonlinear springs with asymmetric stiffness.A nonplanar unsteady vortex-lattice method considering compressibility is employed to address nonlinear deformation and high subsonic flow.Surface spline interpolation is improved through projection and partition.The aeroelastic characteristics of folding fins with different free-play magnitudes,initial conditions and elastic-axis positions are analyzed using an established time-marching method because of its relatively small computation scale and high precision.The results show good consistency among the presented method,the wind tunnel test and the harmonic balance method.There is a negative correlation between the critical speed of divergent motion and the ratio of the initial condition to the free-play magnitude.If either the free-play magnitude or the initial condition is extreme(tiny or vast),the system nonlinearity degenerates to linearity.Generally,the flutter prevention design of a linear model can be applied to a nonlinear model,such as moving the elastic-axis position aftward.The presented fin configuration exhibits an unstable limit cycle oscillation because the orders of coupled flutter modes do not change with variations in equivalent linear stiffness.
文摘Limit cycle oscillations (LCOs) as well as nonlinear aeroelastic analysis of a 3-DOF aeroelastic airfoil motion with cubic restoring moments in the pitch degree of freedom are investigated. Aeroelastic equations of an airfoil with control surface in an incompressible potential flow are presented in the time domain. The harmonic balance (HB) method is utilized to calculate the LCO frequency and amplitude for the airfoil. Also the semi-analytical method has revealed the presence of stable and unstable limit cycles, along with stability reversal in the neighborhood of a Hopf bifurcation. The system response is determined by nu- merically integrating the governing equations using a standard Runge-Kutta algorithm and the obtained results are compared with the HB method. Also the results by the third order HB (HB3) method for control surface are consistent with the other numerical solution. Finally, by combining the numerical and the HB methods, types of bifiarcation, be it supercritical, subcritical, or diver- gent flutter area are identified.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.:11002088,11172333,11272361)
文摘The equivalent linearization method (ELM) is modified to investigate the nonlinear flut- ter system of an airfoil with a cubic damping. After obtaining the linearization quantity of the cubic nonlinearity by the ELM, an equivalent system can be deduced and then investigated by linear flut- ter analysis methods. Different from the routine procedures of the ELM, the frequency rather than the amplitude of limit cycle oscillation (LCO) is chosen as an active increment to produce bifurca- tion charts. Numerical examples show that this modification makes the ELM much more efficient. Meanwhile, the LCOs obtained by the ELM are in good agreement with numerical solutions. The nonlinear damping can delay the occurrence of secondary bifurcation. On the other hand, it has marginal influence on bifurcation characteristics or LCOs.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China (10902082)New Faculty Research Foundation of XJTUthe Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (xjj20100126)
文摘Active stability augmentation system is an attractive and promising technology to suppress flutter and limit cycle oscillation (LCO). In order to design a good active control law, the control plant model with low order and high accuracy must be provided, which is one of the most important key points. The traditional model is based on low fidelity aerodynamics model such as panel method, which is unsuitable for transonic flight regime. The physics-based high fidelity tools, reduced order model (ROM) and CFD/CSD coupled aeroservoelastic solver are used to design the active control law. The Volterra/ROM is applied to constructing the low order state space model for the nonlinear unsteady aerodynamics and static output feedback method is used to active control law design. The detail of the new method is demonstrated by the Goland+ wing/store system. The simulation results show that the effectiveness of the designed active augmentation system, which can suppress the flutter and LCO successfully.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Numbers:12072083,11761131006German Research Foundation,Grant/Award Number:ZH 15/30‐1。
文摘Flutter is a self‐excited vibration under the interaction of the inertial force,aero-dynamic force,and elastic force of the structure.After the flutter occurs,the aircraft structures will exhibit limit cycle oscillation,which will cause catastrophic accidents or fatigue damage to the structures.Therefore,it is of great theoretical and practical significance to study the aeroelastic characteristics and flutter control for improving the aeroelastic stability of aircraft structures.This paper reviews the recent advances in aeroelastic analysis and flutter control of wings and panel structures.The me-chanism of aeroelastic flutter of wings and panels is presented.The research methods of aeroelastic flutter for different structures developed in recent years are briefly summarized.Various control strategies including the linear and nonlinear control algorithms as well as the active flutter control results of wings and panels are presented.Finally,the paper ends with conclusions,which highlight challenges of the development in aeroelastic analysis and flutter control,and provide a brief outlook on the future investigations.This study aims to present a comprehensive under-standing of aeroelastic analysis and flutter control.It can also provide guidance on the design of new wings and panel structures for improving their aeroelastic stability.