CHAOTIC MOTIONS AND LIMIT CYCLE FLUTTER OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL WING IN SUPERSONIC FLOW

Based on the piston theory of supersonic flow and the energy method, the flutter motion equations of a two-dimensional wing with cubic stiffness in the pitching direction are established. The aeroelastic system contains both structural and aerodynamic nonlinearities. Hopf bifurcation theory is used to analyze the flutter speed of the system. The effects of system parameters on the flutter speed are studied. The 4th order Runge-Kutta method is used to calculate the stable limit cycle responses and chaotic motions of the aeroelastic system. Results show that the number and the stability of equilibrium points of the system vary with the increase of flow speed. Besides the simple limit cycle response of period 1, there are also period-doubling responses and chaotic motions in the flutter system. The route leading to chaos in the aeroelastic model used here is the period-doubling bifurcation. The chaotic motions in the system occur only when the flow speed is higher than the linear divergent speed and the initial condition is very small. Moreover, the flow speed regions in which the system behaves chaos axe very narrow.

Analytical Solution for Thermal Flutter of Laminates in Supersonic Speeds

As a basic component of engineering fields such as aeronautics, astronautics and shipbuilding, panel structure has been widely used in engineering and scientific research. It is of great theoretical and practical significance to study the vibration of panels. The panel flutter problem has caused widely concerned by researchers at home and abroad during to the emergence of high-speed aircrafts. With regard to the eigenvalue problem of rectangular panels, it is generally believed that it is difficult to obtain a closed form eigen solution in the case of an adjacent boundaries clamped-supported or a free boundary that cannot be decoupled. Aiming at the problem, this paper studies the two-dimensional symmetric orthogonal laminated plate structure in the hypersonic flow in the thermal environment, and combines the first-order piston aerodynamic theory to study a high-precision separation variable method. Through this method, analytical solution to the closed form of the thermal flutter problem of rectangular panels can be obtained under any homogeneous boundary conditions.