Blade-vortex interaction noise reduction with active twist smart rotor technology

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 77-85

  Chen, Peter C ^a   Baeder, James D ^b   Evans, Robert A D ^a   Niemczuk, John ^a  

^a SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; NOISE ABATEMENT;

ACTIVE TWIST SMART ROTOR TECHNOLOGY; BLADE VORTEX INTERACTION NOISE; LINEARIZED UNSTEADY AERODYNAMICS ANALYSIS; ROTORCRAFT SYSTEMS;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0035249993     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/10/1/307     Document Type: Article

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