Boundary conforming discontinuous galerkin finite element approach for rotorcraft simulations

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 776-785

  Boelens, O J ^a,c   Van Der Ven, H ^a,c   Oskam, B ^a,d   Hassan, A A ^b,e  

^a NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORY NLR   (Netherlands)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^c Department of Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aeroelasticity ^*  (United States)

^d Division of Fluid Dynamics   (United States)

^e McDonnell Aircraft and Missiles Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HELICOPTER ROTORS; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS;

CARTESIAN COORDINATES; EULER EQUATIONS; HOVER; MACH NUMBER;

GALERKIN METHODS;

EID: 0036757633     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3023     Document Type: Article

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