The Rotating Beam Problem in Helicopter Dynamics, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018 Foundations of Engineering Mechanics Series

The book addresses computational methods for solving the problem of vibration, response, loads and stability of a helicopter rotor blade modeled as a rotating beam with flap or out-of-plane bending. The focus is on explaining the implementation of the finite element method in the space and time domain for the free vibration, aeroelastic response and stability problems. The use of Floquet analysis for the aeroelastic stability analysis of rotor blades is also shown. The contents of the book will be useful to researchers in aerodynamics and applied mechanics, and will also serve well professionals working in the aerospace industry.

Introduction.- Finite element analysis in space.- Finite element in time.- Stability analysis.- Helicopter rotor results.

Vijay Panchore obtained his B. Tech degree in Industrial Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Jalandhar in 2009, M. Des. degree from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore in 2011, and PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore in 2017. He works in the area of finite element method, meshless methods and, helicopter dynamics. He has published two international journal papers, where finite element method and meshless methods were used to solve the rotating beam problems.

Prof. Ranjan Ganguli obtained his M.S. and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1991 and 1994, respectively, and his B.Tech degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1989. Following his PhD, he worked at the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center of the University of Maryland as Assistant Research Scientist until 1997 on projects on rotorcraft health monitoring and vibratory load validation for the Naval Surface Warfare Center and United Technology Research Center, respectively. He also worked at the GE Research Lab in Schenectady, New York, and at Pratt and Whitney, East Hartford, Connecticut, from 1997 to 2000. He joined the Aerospace Engineering department of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, as Assistant Professor in July 2000. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005 and to Full Professor in 2009. He is currently the Satish Dhawan Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has held visiting positions at TU Braunschweig, University of Ulm and Max Planck Institute of Metal Research, Stuttgart, in Germany; University Paul Sabatier and Institute of Mathematics, in Toulouse, France; Konkuk University in South Korea, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in USA, and the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prof. Ganguli's research interests are in helicopter aeromechanics, aeroelasticity, struc

Fills a gap in the literature between textbooks on helicopter dynamics and papers published in journals

Illustrates finite element in space and finite element in time, a powerful method for systems governed by periodic differential equations

Uses many examples to illustrate the numerical methods, provides correlation of results with published literature

Provides Matlab code for material used in the book

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras