“…The situation is further complicated due to the transonic dip, as demonstrated numerically by Isogai (21) . There have been a number of studies on the stability of a wing with active control surfaces in a transonic flow, with the aerodynamic loads being computed numerically by Batina and Yang (22) , Guruswamy et al (23) , Guruswamy and Tu (24) , Guruswamy (25) , Ominsky and Ide (26) , Bendiksen et al (27) , Silva and Bennett (28) , Stephens et al (29) and Djayapertapa and Allen (30,31) . Comparisons of the results of different computational approaches were provided by Edwards and Thomas (32) .…”