The inertial manifolds with delay(IMD)was applied to analyze numerically the three-dimensional panel flutter problem. First
the von Karman's large deformation theory and the first-order piston theory were used to describe the panel deformation and the aerodynamic load
respectively
and the nonlinear partial differential governing equations of the system were presented. Then the IMD based nonlinear Galerkin method was employed to project the solutions of the governing equations onto the complete space spanned by the eigenfunctions of equations' operators. With the truncation of modes to approach the solution
the original infinite dimensional dynamic system is approximated to a finite one. Further
a time-delay expression which implies the interaction between higher and lower modes was constructed. With the time-delay expression presented
the higher displacement modes can be obtained directly without a complicated numerical integration
resulting in a system with less degree-of-freedoms and the reduction of computation time. Finally
four typical steady states of the system were analyzed with the method
and the system flat stable boundary was calculated. The comparison between the IMD and traditional Galerkin method(TGM)shows that IMD has the same accuracy and reduces the computation time by 7%-11%. It is likely that the method presented can be applied to other dissipative dynamic systems with large degree-of-freedoms.
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