Elastically mounted double aerodynamic pendulum is an aeroelastic system with two rotational degrees of freedom. A wing is attached to the second link of the pendulum. It is shown that it is possible to select values of parameters in such a way as to make the trivial equilibrium (where both links of the pendulum are stretched along the flow) unstable. Numerical simulation of behavior of the system in such situations is performed, and arising limit cycles are studied. Experimental investigation of such aerodynamic pendulum is performed in the subsonic wind tunnel of the Institute of Mechanics of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Characteristics of periodic motions are registered for different values of parameters of the system. It is shown that experimental data are in qualitative agreement with results of numerical simulation.
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