Vortical flow structures at a helicopter rotor model measured by LDV and PIV

Aeronautical Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 1014, 1998, Pages 221-227

  Raffel, M ^a   Seelhorst, U ^a,b   Willert, C ^a,c  

^a Inst fur Aerodynam/Stromungstech   (Germany)

^b EUROCOPTER DEUTSCHLAND GMBH   (France)

^c Deutsche Forsch Anst F Luft R   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; UNSTEADY FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV); ROTOR BLADES;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0032049604     PISSN: 00019240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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