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Modern Analysis for Complex and Nonlinear Unsteady Flows in Turbomachinery

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A Modern Course in Aeroelasticity

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The field of turbomachinery is undergoing major advances in aeroelasticity and this chapter provides an overview of these new developments in the key enabling methodology of unsteady aerodynamic modeling. Also see the earlier discussions in chapters “Aeroelasticity in Turbomachines” and “Modeling of Fluid-Structure Interaction.”

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Notes

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    Portions of this chapter were excepted from prior papers written by the author and his students, including W. S. Clark, C.B. Lorence, P. D. Silkowski, and D. M. Voytovich. Their contributors are gratefully acknowledged.

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    Portions of this section originally appeared in [20] and are reprinted here with permission from ASME.

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Hall, K. (2022). Modern Analysis for Complex and Nonlinear Unsteady Flows in Turbomachinery. In: Dowell, E.H. (eds) A Modern Course in Aeroelasticity. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 264. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74236-2_13

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