Abstract

The present study presents a new nonlinear unsteady aerodynamic model to investigate the aeroelastic behavior of a self-sustained oscillating rigid airfoil. Here the unsteady Euler equations are considered simulating inviscid compressible transonic flow over an oscillating airfoil. In regard to providing boundedness criteria, a high-order technique based on a normalized variable diagram scheme has been presented. Since using dynamic mesh for simulating flow over a dynamic airfoil is too complex and requires many computational efforts, the current paper proposes a nonorthogonal and static mesh with oscillation of flow boundary. The results are compared with both well-validated numerical methods and experimental data. A time-marching method is employed to determine system responses. The predicted flutter boundary for NACA0012 airfoil at different free-stream Mach numbers is in fair agreement with direct flutter tools of the Hopf bifurcation points. Finally, the influences of the center of mass and elastic axis position on the system aeroelastic behavior are examined.

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