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The effect of trailing-edge strips on the unsteady aerodynamic forces on a control surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

G. Long  and
P. A. Farrell
G. Long
Affiliation:
Aeronautical Research Laboratories, Melbourne
P. A. Farrell
Affiliation:
Aeronautical Research Laboratories, Melbourne
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A modification sometimes used to increase the effectiveness of a control surface is thickening of the trailing-edge by attaching small spanwise strips, normal to the upper and lower surface of the control, along the trailing-edge (see Fig. 1). While the effect of such a modification is fairly well known for steady flow, little evidence is available of the effect in unsteady flow. There are no theoretical methods of predicting the unsteady aerodynamic forces acting on an oscillating control surface which has trailing-edge strips (T-strips) attached and so flutter calculations are based on classical thin-liftingsurface theories. This practice is very dubious and two instances where flutter has occurred but has not been predicted by use of the classical unsteady aerodynamic forces, are described in Refs. 2 and 3.

Type
Technical Notes
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 84 , Issue 838 , November 1980 , pp. 388 - 391
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1980 

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