Investigation of crosswind effect on flutter

Crosswinds can pose danger in many situations. They can be quite dangerous on descents when they are strong. They can cause landings to cancel due to their effects on the wings of the aircraft in the horizontal and vertical planes. To elude these dangers and provide a base ground study towards future optimization studies, a chronological literature survey has been conducted and basic flutter analysis of a generic aircraft rudder has been completed using the program ANSYS which uses Doublet-Lattice method evaluate modal analysis of flutter. It is found that the most of the study about flutter has been carried out in the horizontal plane. Upon completing the aeroelastic analysis of the generic training aircraft rudder, flutter occurrence has been detected when the maximum landing crosswind limit that was set by the FAA was surpassed by 30%.