Comparison of computational aeroacoustic prediction methods for transonic rotor noise

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 531-538

  Brentner, Kenneth S ^a,c,d   Lyrintzis, Anastasios S ^b,d,e   Koutsavdis, Evangelos K ^b,d,e  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Fluid Mechanics and Acoustic Div   (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e SCHOOL OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; TRANSONIC FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL AEROACOUSTIC PREDICTION METHODS; FFOWCS WILLIAMS HAWKINGS EQUATION; KIRCHHOFF METHOD;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0031189055     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2205     Document Type: Review

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