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Flutter of slender bodies under axial stress

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The equations of motion of flexible slender bodies with constant body sections immersed in a uniform axial flow are discussed and used to derive some simple results for the divergence speed and the flutter speed. The results are compared with a classical waving flag result in two-dimensional flow. The slender body result for the flutter speed is compared with values obtained from wind tunnel experiments for some low budget paper strips.

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  1. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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Coene, R. Flutter of slender bodies under axial stress. Appl. Sci. Res. 49, 175–187 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02984177

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