Broadband helicopter noise generated by blade wake interactions

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 293-301

  Glegg, Stewart A L ^a   Devenport, William J ^b   Wittmer, Kenneth S ^b   Pope, D Stuart ^c  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Computer Sciences Corp ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS;

BLADE VORTEX INTERACTION; BROADBAND HELICOPTER NOISE;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0033321842     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/JAHS.44.293     Document Type: Article

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