New computational methods for the prediction and analysis of helicopter noise

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 665-672

  Strawn, Roger C ^a,b,c   Oliker, Leonid ^a,d,e   Biswas, Rupak ^a,f  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b US Army AMRDEC Development   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d UCB 450   (United States)

^e Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

^f MRJ Technology Solutions   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; INTEGRATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BLADE VORTEX INTERACTIONS; IN PLANE HIGH SPEED IMPULSIVE NOISE; KIRCHHOFF METHOD;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 0031222564     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2227     Document Type: Article

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