As Boeing’s 787 illustrates, airliner wings are more slender than they used to be. But as wings get slimmer in pursuit of lower drag and lighter weight, flutter becomes a greater concern. Flutter is ...

NASA has actively suppressed flutter of a flexible wing in flight, potentially paving the way for lighter, lower-drag wings on future fuel-efficient aircraft. The feat was demonstrated on flights of ...

Flutter is a form of aeroelastic instability that manifests itself with oscillations (see Figure 1) which either grow, and eventually lead to a structural failure, or remain at some constant-amplitude ...