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Aeroelastic instability of cantilevered flexible plates in uniform flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2008

CHRISTOPHE ELOY ,
ROMAIN LAGRANGE ,
CLAIRE SOUILLIEZ  and
LIONEL SCHOUVEILER
CHRISTOPHE ELOY
Affiliation:
IRPHE, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, 49 rue Joliot-Curie, 13013 Marseille, France
ROMAIN LAGRANGE
Affiliation:
IRPHE, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, 49 rue Joliot-Curie, 13013 Marseille, France
CLAIRE SOUILLIEZ
Affiliation:
IRPHE, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, 49 rue Joliot-Curie, 13013 Marseille, France
LIONEL SCHOUVEILER
Affiliation:
IRPHE, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, 49 rue Joliot-Curie, 13013 Marseille, France
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Abstract

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 destabilizing pressure forces and stabilizing 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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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 611 , 25 September 2008 , pp. 97 - 106
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