Abstract An analytical model is derived to study the structural dynamic stability behavior for the free-flying heliogyro solar sail consisting of a finite set of symmetric or evenly distributed thin blades on a flat surface. Key properties of the flutter instability are described in terms of the relationship among the eigenvalues and eigenvectors associated with a flutter instability frequency. Various simulation cases for an idealized single blade, fixed rotational speed heliogyro model, and a generalized multi-bladed, freely spinning heliogyro model are presented to show how the flutter instability frequencies change as a function of the solar radiation pressure and the size of the dynamic model. Convergence of the flutter instability frequency versus the system order is demonstrated.
A Multi-Blade Model for Heliogyro Solar Sail Structural Dynamic Analysis
2019
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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