FLEXURAL OSCILLATIONS OF FLEXIBLE AIRFOILS IN SUBSONIC COMPRESSIBLE FLOWS
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Abstract
This paper presents simple and efficient analytical solutions for unsteady subsonic compressible flows past flexible airfoils executing low frequency oscillations.These analytical solutions are obtained with a method using velocity singularities related to the airfoil leading edge and ridges.The method has been validated for the pitching and plunging oscillations of the rigid airfoils by comparison with results based on Jordan's data for compressible flows and by comparison with the solutions obtained by Theodorsen, Postel & Leppert and Mateescu & Abdo for incompressible flows.The method has been applied to obtain efficient analytical solutions for the flexural oscillations of airfoils in compressible flows, which can be efficiently used in solving aeroelastic problems. Professor Carafoli's contributions to the aerodynamics of airfoils and wingsStarting from 1924, in Paris, Elie Carafoli made significant contributions to the aerodynamic studies of wings and airfoils, included in Aerodynamics of airplane wings [5], Theory of lifting airfoils [6], in which he presented the aerodynamics of airfoils with rounded trailing edge, named later Carafoli airfoils, Influence of ailerons on the aerodynamic characteristics of lifting surfaces [7], and in Experimental studies on monoplane wings [8].After 1928, he continued his research and academic activity in Romania, bringing new contributions to the aerodynamics of wings and airfoils in incompressible flows, which were mostly included in Aerodynamics [9], book also translated from Romanian into German and Russian.After 1950, Elie Carafoli developed a special interest for compressible flows and published High Speed Aerodynamics [10], initially in Romanian and then translated in English.He made, together with his collaborators, important contributions on the aerodynamics of wings and airfoils in supersonic flows, most of them included in the monograph Wing Theory in Supersonic Flow [11] published by Pergamon Press, to which the present author also collaborated.
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