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Langlois; 2012; \u201cExperimental Investigation and Numerical Correlation of the Influence of Representative Ship Motion in Various Sea States on the Aeroelastic Response of a Froude-scaled Maritime Rotor System\u201d; Journal of Ocean Engineering; under review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wall, A.S.; Zan, S.J.; Langlois, R.G. and Afagh, F.F.; 2012; \u201cCorrelated Turbulance Modelling: An Advancing Fourier Series Method\u201d; Journal of Wind Engineering; under review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saxton, C.E. and Afagh, F.F.; 2010; AModelling and Dynamic Stability of a Hingeless Active Fibre Composite Blade@; Archive of Applied Mechanics; vol. 80, Issue (8), pp. 843-869; http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/openurl.asp?genre=article&amp;id=doi:10.1007\/s00419-009-0344-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conference Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Riazi, Mohammad; Langlois, Robert G.; Afagh, Fred F.; 2012; \u201cAerodynamic Modelling of the Blade Sailing Phenomenon for Active Control\u201d; Proceedings of International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, Ottawa, Canada; pp198(1) \u2013 198(8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bourassa, M.; Burlton, B.; Afagh, F.; and Langlois, R,; 2012; \u201cModelling Luni-Solar Perturbations Acting on Highly Eccentric Earth-Orbiting Satellites\u201d; Proceedings of Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) ASTRO 2010 Conference, Quebec City, Canada; 7 pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Fred","cu_people_last_name":"Afagh","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[77,81,88,13,80],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-277","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-aero-structures","cu_people_type-applied-dynamics","cu_people_type-dynamics-and-mechanical-vibrations","cu_people_type-faculty","cu_people_type-vibrations"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor","cu_people_degree":"B.Sc., M.Sc. 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