Technical note: Preliminary work for modeling the propellers of an aircraft as a noise source in an acoustic boundary element analysis

Noise Control Engineering Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 132-136

  Vlahopoulos, Nickolas ^a   Lyle, Karen H ^b   Burley, Casey L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b US Army Vehicle Technology Cent   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; AIRCRAFT PROPELLERS; ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACOUSTIC PRESSURE; ROTORCRAFT; TILT ROTOR AIRCRAFT;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 0032068302     PISSN: 07362501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3397/1.2828465     Document Type: Article

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