Imperial College London

Rafael Palacios

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Aeronautics

Professor in Computational Aeroelasticity
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 5075r.palacios CV

 
 
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Location

 

338City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Palacios:2017,
author = {Palacios, R and Simpson, RJS and Maraniello, S},
title = {State-space realizations of potential-flow unsteady aerodynamics with arbitrary kinematics},
year = {2017}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - CPAPER
AB - We introduce a nondimensional state-space formulation of the unsteady vortex-lattice method for time-domain aerodynamics. It deals with 2- or 3-dimensional geometries, re- solves frequencies up to a spatio-temporal Nyquist limit defined by the wake discretization, and has a convenient form for linearization, model reduction and coupling with structural dynamics models. No assumptions are made relating to the kinematics of the fluid-structure interface (inputs) and use of Joukowski's theorem to compute forces naturally resolves all components of the unsteady aerodynamic forcing (outputs). Linearized expressions are written about arbitrary non-zero reference geometries, velocities and loading distributions and as such yield models that are as general as possible given the assumptions in the un- derlying uid mechanics. The implementation is verified against classical solutions in the unsteady aerodynamics, and in aeroelastic stability analysis of cantilever wing configurations.
AU - Palacios,R
AU - Simpson,RJS
AU - Maraniello,S
PY - 2017///
TI - State-space realizations of potential-flow unsteady aerodynamics with arbitrary kinematics
ER -