A thorough look at the (in)stability of piston-theoretic beams

Autor: Jason Howell, Katelynn Huneycutt, Justin T. Webster, Spencer Wilder
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Mathematics in Engineering, Vol 1, Iss 3, Pp 614-647 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2640-3501
DOI: 10.3934/mine.2019.3.614/fulltext.html
Popis: We consider a beam model representing the transverse deflections of a one dimensional elastic structure immersed in an axial fluid flow. The model includes a nonlinear elastic restoring force, with damping and non-conservative terms provided through the flow effects. Three different configurations are considered: a clamped panel, a hinged panel, and a flag (a cantilever clamped at the leading edge, free at the trailing edge). After providing the functional framework for the dynamics, recent results on well-posedness and long-time behavior of the associated solutions are presented. Having provided this theoretical context, in-depth numerical stability analyses follow, focusing both on the onset of flow-induced instability (flutter), and qualitative properties of the post-flutter dynamics across configurations. Modal approximations are utilized, as well as finite difference schemes.
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