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Impact on Future Design of Aircraft and Stores
The prediction of LCO behavior of fighter aircraft is critical to mission safety and
effectiveness, and the accurate determination of LCO onset speed and amplitude often requires
flight test verification of linear flutter models. The increasing stores certification demands for
new stores and configurations, and the associated flight test costs, necessitate the development of
tools to enhance computation of LCO through modeling of the aerodynamic and structural
sources of LCO nonlinearities. Once the state of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) codes advances,
the temporal analysis techniques applied in this dissertation, namely the Lissajous and wavelet
plots, can be applied in order to identify LCO conditions and design new stores such that they
avoid an LCO condition. These methods can also be applied when developing new store-carrying
fighter aircraft such as the F-35. Many of the unexpected problems encountered by the F-16 (also
the F-15 and F-18) can be avoided altogether for this new aircraft, drastically reducing the
required number of flight tests, associated costs, and the risks encountered by the pilots flying
the aircraft in such dangerous conditions.
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