8 research outputs found
Investigation of an all-movable control surface at a mach number of 6.86 for possible flutter
Movable tail surface for aircraft control without flutter using X-15 scale model at hypersonic spee
Experimental investigation of the effect of aspect ratio and Mach number on the flutter of cantilever wings
The results of some wind-tunnel experiments to investigate the effects of aspect ratio and Mach number on the flutter of uniform, unswept, cantilever wings are reported. Models having aspect ratios ranging from 2 to 13 were tested at Mach numbers up to 0.92. No general attempt is made to correlate the data with three-dimensional-flow theory, but an examination of the data is made on the basis of reference theoretical values obtained from the two-dimensional incompressible-flow theory. On this basis a reduction in aspect ratio, in general, increased the ratio of the experimental flutter speed to the calculated flutter speed. The analysis also indicated that for a given aspect ratio, this ratio decreased slightly as the Mach number is increased