Analysis of a Nonlinear Aeroelastic System with Parametric Uncertainties Using Polynomial Chaos Expansion英文文献资料.docVIP

HindawiPublishingCorporation MathematicalProblemsinEngineering Volume2010,ArticleID379472,21pages doi:10.1155/2010/379472 ResearchArticle AnalysisofaNonlinearAeroelasticSystem withParametricUncertainties UsingPolynomial ChaosExpansion AjitDesaiandSunetraSarkar Department ofAerospaceEngineering, IITMadras,Chennai600036,India Correspondence shouldbeaddressedtoSunetraSarkar,sunetra.sarkar@ Received10January2010;Revised30April2010;Accepted 14June2010 Academic Editor:CarloCattani Copyright q2010A.DesaiandS.Sarkar. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction inanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. Aeroelastic stability remains an important concern for the design of modern structures such as wind turbine rotors, more so with the use of increasingly ?exible blades. A nonlinear aeroelastic system has been considered in the present study with parametric uncertainties. Uncertainties can occur due to any inherent randomness in the system or modeling limitations, and so forth. Uncertainties can play a signi?cant role in the aeroelastic stability predictions in a nonlinear system. The analysis has been put in a stochastic framework, and the propagation of system uncertainties has been quanti?ed in the aeroelastic response. A spectral uncertainty quanti?cation tool called Polynomial Chaos Expansion has been used. A projection-based nonintrusive Polynomial Chaos approach is shown to be much faster than its classical Galerkin method based counterpart. Traditional Monte Carlo Simulation is used as a reference solution. E?ect of system randomness on the bifurcation behavior and the ?utter boundary has been presented. Stochastic bifurcation results and bifurcation ofprobability density functions arealso discussed. 1.Introduction Fluid-structureinteractioncanresultindynamicinstabilitieslike?utter.Nonlinearparam- eters present in the system can stabili