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JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 611, Issue -, Pages 97-106Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S002211200800284X
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- French ANR ANR-06-JCJC-0087 [ANR-06-JCJC-0087]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-06-JCJC-0087] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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We address the flutter instability of a flexible plate Immersed In an axial flow. This instability is similar to flag flutter and results from the competition between destabilizing pressure forces and stabilizing bending stiffness. In previous experimental Studies, the plates have always appeared Much more stable than the predictions of two-dimensional models. This discrepancy is discussed and clarified in this paper by examining experimentally and theoretically the effect of the plate aspect ratio Oil the instability threshold. We show that the two-dimensional limit cannot be achieved experimentally because hysteretical behaviour and three-dimensional effects appear for plates of large aspect ratio. The nature of the instability bifurcation (sub- or supercritical) is also discussed in the light of recent numerical results.
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