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The solution of large flutter problems on small computers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

A. Simpson*
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Bristol

Summary

The ‘inverse method’ proposed in 1936 by Duncan, Collar and Lyon for the calculation of flutter boundaries is re-stated in a form suited to modern methods of dynamical and numerical analysis and programmed for use on a home computer. The method is extended to provide information on sub- and supercritical eigenvalues. For a microcomputer with 32K RAM, flutter problems of orders up to 35 may be accurately solved.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1984 

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