Modern helicopter rotor aerodynamics

Progress in Aerospace Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 419-476

  Conlisk, A T ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HELICOPTER ROTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; UNSTEADY FLOW; WAKES;

AEROMECHANICS; COMPLEX FLUID DYNAMICS;

TRANSONIC AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 0035388613     PISSN: 03760421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-0421(01)00011-2     Document Type: Review

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