Parallel computing concepts and methods for floquet analysis of helicopter trim and stability

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 370-382

  Subramanian, S ^a   Gaonkar, G H ^b   Nagabhushanam, J ^a   Nakadi, R M ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b Florida Atlantic University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFOILS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DAMPING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

FLOQUET ANALYSIS; FLOQUET TRANSITION MATRIX; HELICOPTER TRIM; JACOBIAN MATRIX; NEWTON ITERATION; SINGLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATA COMPUTERS;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 0030258469     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/jahs.41.370     Document Type: Article

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