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AERODYNAMIC thermal effects induced at high-speed flight may produce deformations, stresses, and changes in material properties that can dramatically affect the aeroelastic behavior of flight/space vehicles. In this sense, the structural panels of supersonic/hypersonic flight vehicles can experience, among others, the thermal flutter instability generated by the combined influence of the thermal field, unsteady aerodynamic loads, elasticity of structures, and the dynamic effects. 1