Rotor wake modeling for flight dynamic simulation of helicopters

AIAA journal

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 57-63

  Brown, Richard E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STIFFNESS; UNSTEADY FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

VORTICITY CONSERVATION METHOD;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0033640092     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.922     Document Type: Article

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