Back-action of aerodynamics onto structures such as wings cause vibrations and may resonantly
couple to them thus causing instabilities (flutter) and endangering the whole structure. By
careful choices of geometry materials and damping mechanisms hazardous effects on wind
engines planes turbines and cars can be avoided.Besides an introduction into the problem of
flutter new formulations of flutter problems are given as well as a treatise of supersonic
flutter and of a whole range of mechanical effects. Numerical and analytical methods to study
them are developed and applied to the analysis of new classes of flutter problems for plates
and shallow shells of arbitrary plane form. Specific problems discussed in the book in the
context of numerical simulations are supplemented by Fortran code examples (available on the
website).
