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Old 8th Oct 2004, 20:34
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Vibrations

Lu, as you and Cran pointed out assymetrical foils do indeed have the disadvantages of producing moments along the blade cord. Even if these moments are more or less balanced out along the blade as they are in the case of the Lynx by carefully chosing different sections along the blade, these different moments still produce higher order harmonics which are not so well balanced. This is the cause of these vibrations

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