Helicopter rotor blade computation in unsteady flows using moving overset grids

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 54-60

  Ahmad, Jasim ^a,b   Duque, Earl P N ^a,b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b US Army Aeroflightdynamics Direct ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; UNSTEADY FLOW;

HELICOPTER FLOWFIELD; MOVING OVERSET GRIDS;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0029708250     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.46902     Document Type: Article

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