Abstract
This paper investigates the stability and bifurcation behavior of a double-wedge aerofoil performing a pitching motion at high angles of attack. When a pair of complex conjugate eigenvalues crosses the imaginary axis of the eigenvalue plane, the trivial solution loses stability giving rise to a periodic solution, known as Hopf bifurcation, provided certain transversality conditions are not violated. The existence of degenerate Hopf bifurcation due to the violation of Hopf s transversality condition at certain critical values of the system parameters is shown. The behavior of the pitching motion near these critical values is examined by unfolding the degeneracies. For the supersonic double-wedge aerofoil, various parameters defining the bifurcation paths were numerically evaluated.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 413-418 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1986 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- Space and Planetary Science
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Applied Mathematics