Numerical simulations of helicopter aerodynamics and acoustics

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 66, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 471-483

  Strawn, Roger C ^a   Biswas, Rupak ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Dynamic mesh adaption; Helicopter aerodynamics and acoustics; Kirchhoff integration; Rotor in hover and forward flight; Structured and unstructured grids

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HELICOPTERS; SIMULATION-NUMERICAL;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DYNAMIC MESH ADAPTION; HIGH SPEED IMPULSIVE NOISE; KIRCHHOFF INTEGRATION; STRUCTURED GRID SOLVER; UNSTRUCTURED GRID SOLVER;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 0029656833     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0377-0427(95)00171-9     Document Type: Article

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