Extension of dual equivalent linearization technique to flutter analysis of two dimensional nonlinear airfoils

Abstract

This paper extends the dual equivalent linearization technique (ELT) to obtain flutter speeds of a two-dimensional airfoil with nonlinear stiffness and damping in pitch degree of freedom. Although the use of dual ELT has been investigated in some previous papers, this paper presents an extension of dual ELT using the global-local approach, in which the local equivalent linearization coefficients are averaged in the global sense. The numerical calculation shows that the extended dual ELT gives more accurate flutter speeds in comparison with the ones of classical ELT.