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Fluid-structure interaction analysis of the drop impact test for helicopter fuel tank

Xianfeng Yang1, Zhiqiang Zhang1, Jialing Yang1

  • 1Institute of Solid Mechanics, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191 People's Republic of China.

Springerplus
|September 22, 2016
PubMed

Keywords:
Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian methodFluid–structure interactionFuel tankImpact test

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