Reduction of Blade-Vortex Interaction (BVI) noise through X-force control

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 14-24

  Schmitz, Fredric H ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VELOCITY;

BLADE VORTEX INTERACTION; NOISE RADIATION; NOISE REDUCTION; X FORCE CONTROL;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0031682004     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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