Navier-stokes analysis of helicopter rotor aerodynamics in hover and forward flight

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 813-821

  Pomin, Hubert ^a   Wagner, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR STRESS; TORQUE; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VISCOSITY;

HOVER; TIMOSHENKO BEAM THEORY;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0036757484     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3001     Document Type: Article

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