Critical evaluation of various approaches for the numerical detection of helicopter blade-vortex interactions

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 179-190

  Gandhi, Farhan ^a   Tauszig, Lionel ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

FREE WAKE ANALYSIS; HELICOPTER BLADE VORTEX INTERACTIONS (BVI);

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0034224771     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/JAHS.45.179     Document Type: Article

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