Dr Chris Howcroft

Memberships

Organisations

Department of Aerospace Engineering

Other sites

• Aerospace

Research Groups

• Applied Nonlinear Mathematics
• Dynamics and Control
• Fluid and Aerodynamics

Recent publications

• Howcroft, C, Neild, S, Lowenberg, M & Cooper, JE, 2019, ‘Efficient aeroelastic beam modelling and the selection of a structural shape basis’. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, vol 112., pp. 73-84
• Eaton, A, Howcroft, C, Coetzee, E, Neild, S, Lowenberg, M & Cooper, J, 2018, ‘Numerical Continuation of Limit Cycle Oscillations and Bifurcations in High-Aspect-Ratio Wings’. Aerospace, vol 5.
• Howcroft, C, Cook, R, Neild, S, Lowenberg, M, Cooper, J & Coetzee, E, 2018, ‘On the Geometrically Exact Low Order Modelling of a Flexible Beam: Formulation and Numerical Tests’. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol 474.
• Li, Y, Howcroft, C, Neild, SA & Jiang, JZ, 2017, ‘Using continuation analysis to identify shimmy-suppression devices for an aircraft main landing gear’. Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol 408., pp. 234-251
• Howcroft, C, Cook, RG, Calderon, DE, Lambert, LA, Castellani, M, Cooper, JE, Lowenberg, MH, Neild, SA & Coetzee, EB, 2016, ‘Aeroelastic Modelling of Highly Flexible Wings’. in: 15th Dynamics Specialists Conference. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA)
• Szczyglowski, CP, Howcroft, C, Neild, S, Titurus, B, Jiang, JZ, Cooper, J & Coetzee, E, 2016, ‘Strut-Braced Wing Modelling with a Reduced Order Beam Model’. in: 5th Aircraft Structural Design Conference. Royal Aeronautical Society
• Eaton, A, Howcroft, C, Neild, S, Lowenberg, M, Cooper, J & Coetzee, E, 2016, ‘Flutter in High Aspect Ratio Wings using Numerical Continuation’. in: 5th Aircraft Structural Design Conference.
• Howcroft, C, Lowenberg, M, Neild, S, Krauskopf, B & Coetzee, E, 2015, ‘Shimmy of an aircraft main landing gear with geometric coupling and mechanical freeplay’. Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, vol 10.
• Howcroft, C, Lowenberg, MH, Neild, SA & Krauskopf, B, 2013, ‘Effects of Freeplay on Dynamic Stability of an Aircraft Main Landing Gear’. Journal of Aircraft, vol 50., pp. 1908-1922
• Howcroft, C, Krauskopf, B, Lowenberg, MH & Neild, SA, 2013, ‘Influence of Variable Side-Stay Geometry on the Shimmy Dynamics of an Aircraft Dual-Wheel Main Landing Gear’. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, vol 12., pp. 1181-1209

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