Aeroelastic instability of cantilevered flexible plates in uniform flow

Details Aeroelastic instability of cantilevered flexible plates in uniform flow Aeroelastic instability of cantilevered flexible plates in uniform flow

2008-04-04

arxiv.org/abs/0804.0774v2

Eloy, C., Lagrange, R., Souilliez, C. & Schouveiler, L. (2008) Aeroelastic instability of cantilevered flexible plates in unif

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

Scientific paper

10.1017/S002211200800284X

We address the flutter instability of a flexible plate immersed in an axial flow. This instability is similar to flag flutter and results from the competition between destabilising pressure forces and stabilising bending stiffness. In previous experimental studies, the plates have always appeared much more stable than the predictions of two-dimensional models. This discrepancy is discussed and clarified in this paper by examining experimentally and theoretically the effect of the plate aspect ratio on the instability threshold. We show that the two-dimensional limit cannot be achieved experimentally because hysteretical behaviour and three-dimensional effects appear for plates of large aspect ratio. The nature of the instability bifurcation (sub- or supercritical) is also discussed in the light of recent numerical results.

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