A New Aeroelastic Oscillator, Theory and Experiments
Abstract This paper reviews recent work on the development of a new type of an aeroelastic oscillator with one degree of freedom in a uniform windfield. The typical characteristics of the oscillator are the low frequency (less than 1 Hz) allowing application of a quasi-steady modeling and a combined translational and rotational motion in cross-flow. The oscillator is developed for the study of galloping oscillations in a wind tunnel. The model equation is validated by comparing its solutions with the experimental results. In the quasi-steady modeling for the dynamic behaviour use is made of the numerical values of aerodynamic coefficients obtained from wind tunnel measurements on the oscillator in a static position. Particularly the dependence of limit amplitudes on the flow velocity, obtained from the analysis of the model equations are compared with the ones obtained from experiments.