Experimental study of the three dimensionality of orthogonal blade-vortex interaction

AIAA Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2037-2046

  Wang, Tongguang ^a,b   Doolan, C J ^a,c   Coton, F N ^a   Galbraith, R A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ANEMOMETERS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HELICOPTER ROTORS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

HOT WIRE ANEMOMETRY; ORTHOGONAL BLADE VORTEX INTERACTION; ROTOR BLADE; WIND TUNNEL TESTING;

WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 0036803716     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.1536     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Sheridan, P. F., and Smith, R. P., "Interactional Aerodynamics - A New Challenge to Helicopter Technology," Journal of the American Helicopter Society, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1980, pp. 3-21.
2. Straus, J., Renzoni, P., and Mayle, R., "Airfoil Pressure Measurements During a Blade-Vortex Interaction and Comparison with Theory," AIAA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2, 1990, pp. 222-228.
3. Masson, C. A., Green, R. B., Galbraith, R. A. M., and Coton, F. N., "Experimental Investigation of a Loaded Rotor Blade's Interaction with a Single Vortex," Aeronautical Journal, Vol. 102, No. 1018, 1998, pp. 451-457.
4. Howe, M., "On Unsteady Surface Forces, and Sound Produced by the Normal Chopping of a Rectilinear Vortex," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 206, 1989, pp. 131-153.
5. Marshall, J. S., "Vortex Cutting by a Blade, Part 1: General Theory and a Simple Solution," AIAA Journal, Vol. 32, No. 6, 1994, pp. 1145-1150.
6. Marshall, J. S., and Yalamanchili, R., "Vortex Cutting by a Blade, Part 2: Computations of Vortex Response," AIAA Journal, Vol. 32, No. 7, 1994, pp. 1428-1436.
7. Marshall, J. S., and Grant, J. R., "Penetration of a Blade into a Vortex Core: Vorticity Response and Unsteady Blade Forces," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 306, 1996, pp. 83-109.
8. Marshall, J. S., and Krishnamoorthy, S., "On the Instantaneous Cutting of a Columnar Vortex with Non-Zero Axial Flow," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 351, 1997, pp. 41-74.
9. Lee, J. A., Burggraf, O. R., and Conlisk, A. T., "On the Impulsive Blocking of a Vortex Jet," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 369, 1998, pp. 301-331.
10. Krishnamoorthy, S., and Marshall, J. S., "Three-Dimensional Blade Vortex Interaction in the Strong Vortex Regime," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 10, No. 11, 1998, pp. 2828-2845.
11. Ahmadi, A., "Experimental Investigation of Blade-Vortex Interaction at Normal Incidence," AIAA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1986, pp. 47-55.
12. Johnston, R. T., and Sullivan, J. P., "Unsteady Wing Surface Pressures in the Wake of Propeller," AIAA Paper 92-0277, 1992.
13. Doolan, C. J., Coton, F. N., and Galbraith, R. A. McD., "Surface Pressure Measurements of the Orthogonal Vortex Interaction," AIAA Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2001, pp. 88-95.
14. Doolan, C. J., Green, R. B., Coton, F. N., and Galbraith, R. A. McD., "The Orthogonal Blade-Vortex Interaction Experimental Programme at the University of Glasgow," 26th European Rotorcraft Forum, The Hague, 2000, pp. 103-1-103.12.
15. Doolan, C. J., Coton, F. N., and Galbraith, R. A. McD., "Three-Dimensional Vortex Interactions with a Stationary Blade," Aeronautical Journal, Vol. 103, No. 1030, 1999, pp. 579-587.
16. Doolan, C. J., Coton, F. N., and Galbraith, R. A. McD., "Measurements of Three-Dimensional Vortices Using a Hot-Wire Anemometer," AIAA Paper 99-3810, 1999.
17. Green, R. B., Doolan, C. J., and Cannon, R. M., "Measurements of the Orthogonal Blade-Vortex Interaction Using a Particle Image Velocimetry Technique," Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 29, No. 4, 2000, pp. 369-379.
18. Early, J. M., Green, R. B., and Coton, F. N., "Flow Visualisation of the Orthogonal Blade-Vortex Interaction Using Particle Image Velocimetry," Aeronautical Journal, Vol. 106, No. 1057, 2001, pp. 137-145.
19. Copland, C. M., "The Generation of Transverse and Longitudinal Vortices in Low Speed Wind Tunnels," Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K., 1997.
20. Lundgren, T. S., and Ashurst, W. T., "Area-Varying Waves on Curved Vortex Tubes with Application to Vortex Breakdown," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 200, 1989, pp. 283-307.
21. Hagen, J. P., and Kurosaka, M., "Corewise Cross-Flow Transport in Hairpin Vortices - The "Tornado Effect," Physics of Fluids, Vol. A5, No. 12, 1993, pp. 3167-3174.
22. Kaykayoglu, R., and Rockwell, D., "Vortices Incident Upon a Leading Edge: Instantaneous Pressure Fields," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 156, 1985, pp. 439-461.
23. Abbott, I. H. and von Doenhoff, A. E., Theory of Wing Sections, Dover, New York, 1959, Chap. 7.