Recent developments in rotary-wing aeroelasticity

The purpose of this review is to present the research done in rotary-wing aeroelasticity during the past eight years in a unified manner. The following topics are reviewed with considerable detail: (1) recent development in the aeroelastic modeling of the coupled flap-lag-torsional problem in hover (2) effect of unsteady aerodynamics on the coupled flap-lag-torsional aeroelastic problem in hover (3) the coupled flap-lag and the coupled flap-lag-torsional problem in forward flight (4) complete rotor and coupled rotor fuselage aeroelastic problems including both hingeless and teetering rotors.

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