Coupled Flight Dynamics and Thermoelasticity Model of Maneuvering Aircraft

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A coupled flight dynamics and thermoelasticty model for maneuvering body in an undeformed body frame is proposed. It derivation is based on the variational principle and four invariants, the kinetic energy, the gravitational potential energy, the thermoelastic potential, and the dissipation function. The governing system has ten equations, the six translational and rotational equations coupled with four thermoelastic partial differential equations.

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