Flapping response of lifting rotor blades to atmospheric turbulence
Lifting rotor blades flapping response to atmospheric turbulence, discussing time averaging and perturbation schemes
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Lifting rotor blades flapping response to atmospheric turbulence, discussing time averaging and perturbation schemes
Lifting rotor blades flapping response to atmospheric turbulence, discussing time averaging and perturbation schemes
A comparison with NASA conducted simulator studies has shown that the approximate digital method for computing rotor blade flapping responses to random inputs, tentatively suggested in Phase I Report, gives with increasing rotor advance ratio the wrong trend. Consequently, three alternative methods of solution have been considered and are described: (1) an approximate method based on the functional relation between input and output double frequency spectra, (2) a numerical method based on the system responses to deterministic inputs and (3) a perturbation approach. Among these the perturbation method requires the least amount of computation and has been developed in two forms - the first form to obtain the response correlation function and the second for the time averaged spectra of flapping oscillations.
A number of lifting rotor conditions with random inputs are discussed. The present state of random process theory, applicable to lifting rotor problems is sketched. Possible theories of random blade flapping and random blade flap-bending are outlined and their limitations discussed. A plan for preliminary experiments to study random flapping motions of a see-saw rotor is developed.