Nature of locally steady rotor wakes

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 750-758

  Kini, Santosh ^a,b   Conlisk, A T ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b Doty Scientific Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; HELICOPTER ROTORS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VORTEX FLOW;

ADAMS-MOULTON SCHEME; BIOT-SAVART LAW; EULER SCHEME; LIFTING-LINE THEORY; ROTOR WAKES; TIME-STEPPING VORTEX METHOD;

WAKES;

EID: 0036757415     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3021     Document Type: Article

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