Modeling vibrating panels excited by a non-homogeneous turbulent boundary layer

Abstract Predicting the vibration response of an elastic structure excited by a turbulent flow is of interest for the civil and military transportation sector. The models proposed in the literature are generally based on the assumption that the turbulent boundary layer (noted TBL in the following) exciting the structure is spatially homogeneous. However, this assumption is not always fulfilled in practice, in particular when the excited area is close to the starting point of the TBL or with curved structures. To overcome this issue, this work proposes to extend two approaches generally used for dealing with homogeneous TBL, namely the spatial and the wavenumber approaches. The extension of …