International Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 248930, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/248930
Research Article

Derivation of ODEs and Bifurcation Analysis of a Two-DOF Airfoil Subjected to Unsteady Incompressible Flow

H. Alighanbari and S. M. Hashemi

Department of Aerospace Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada

Received 11 March 2009; Accepted 6 June 2009

Academic Editor: Chelakara S. Subramanian

Copyright © 2009 H. Alighanbari and S. M. Hashemi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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