Oddvar Bendiksen

About

Oddvar Bendiksen is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. His research interests include classical and computational aeroelasticity, structural dynamics, and unsteady aerodynamics. His work focuses on understanding and modeling the dynamic behavior of aerospace structures and the interactions between aerodynamic forces and structural responses, contributing to advancements in aerospace engineering and related fields.

Research topics

• Computer science
• Physics
• Mechanics
• Aerospace engineering
• Structural engineering

Selected publications

• Review of unsteady transonic aerodynamics: Theory and applications

  Progress in Aerospace Sciences · 2010-12-16 · 144 citations

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• Transonic Limit Cycle Flutter of High-Aspect-Ratio Swept Wings

  Journal of Aircraft · 2008-09-01 · 42 citations

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  This paper is motivated by the observed transonic limit cycle flutter of a high-aspect-ratio swept wing tested at DLR, German Aerospace Center in Gottingen. We show that the aeroelastic mechanism responsible for the limit cycle flutter behavior can be explained in terms of the structural washout effect, which is strongly stabilizing at transonic Mach numbers. This limits the energy transfer rate to the wing, resulting in a limit cycle flutter mode in which bending and torsion are almost perfectl…

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• High-Altitude Limit Cycle Flutter of Transonic Wings

  Journal of Aircraft · 2009-01-01 · 34 citations

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  In flutter testing, it is often implicitly assumed that the most critical case at any given Mach number will occur at sea level conditions. This is a reasonable expectation, as the highest dynamic pressure at a fixed Mach number will be encountered at sea level, where the air density is highest. In the present paper, a counterexample involving a generic swept wing representative of transport aircraft is presented in which transonic limit cycle flutter is predicted to occur at altitude rather tha…

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• Fluid–structure interactions with both structural and fluid nonlinearities

  Journal of Sound and Vibration · 2008-06-04 · 27 citations

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• A System for Simulation of Store Separation Including Unsteady Effects

  47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including The New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition · 2009-01-05 · 18 citations

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  *† ‡ § As aerospace systems progress toward increased performance, new challenges exist in the store clearance process. Successful prediction of the store separation trajectory involves not only the dynamic and aerodynamic properties of the store, but also the interaction of the store aerodynamics with the aerodynamic flow field of the vehicle. Numerous test and analytical methods exist for computing store trajectories, however new operational requirements continue to create demand for reliable…

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Frequent coauthors

• Guang-Yaw Hwang

  California State University Los Angeles

  10 shared

• Peretz P. Friedmann

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  5 shared

• Kevin Roughen

  5 shared

• S. LUST

  Michael Baker International (United States)

  5 shared

• P. FRIEDMANN

  University of California, Los Angeles

  4 shared

• Kenneth A. Kousen

  Hartford Financial Services (United States)

  4 shared

• Gary A. Davis

  4 shared

• Güçlü Seber

  Virginia Tech

  3 shared

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