Use of a Navier-Stokes code in understanding tiltrotor flowfields in hover

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 103-109

  Poling, David R ^a   Rosenstein, Harold ^a   Rajagopalan, Ganesh ^b  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT PROPELLERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LAMINAR FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; WINGS;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NON BODY FITTED THREE DIMENSIONAL CARTESIAN COORDINATE SYSTEMS; STEADY FLOW; TILTROTOR AIRCRAFTS; TIME AVERAGED MOMENTUM SOURCE TERMS;

VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

EID: 0032051283     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/JAHS.43.103     Document Type: Article

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