An evaluation of a rotating Kirchhoff acoustic methodology

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-65

  Lyrintzis, A S ^a,b   Koutsavdis, E K ^a,b   Berezin, C R ^c   Visintainer, J A ^c   Pollack, M J ^c  

^a AHS   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

^c SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSONIC FLOW; UNSTEADY FLOW;

BLADE VORTEX INTERACTION; HIGH SPEED IMPULSIVE; KIRCHHOFF METHOD; TILTROTOR AEROACOUSTIC CODE;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0031656360     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/jahs.43.57     Document Type: Review

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