Rotor blade-vortex interaction noise

Progress in Aerospace Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 97-115

  Yu, Yung H ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; MACHINE VIBRATIONS; VORTEX FLOW;

HELICOPTER ROTOR BLADES; HIGHER HARMONIC PITCH CONTROL;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0033905912     PISSN: 03760421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-0421(99)00012-3     Document Type: Review

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