Unsteady overset simulation of rotor-airframe interaction

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 662-674

  Hariharan, Nathan ^a   Sankar, Lakshmi N ^b  

^a UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFRAMES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW PATTERNS; FUSELAGES; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; ROTORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

AERODYNAMIC INTERACTION; MULTIBLOCK STRATEGY; ROTOR BLADES; ROTOR-AIRFRAME INTERACTION;

UNSTEADY FLOW;

EID: 0042882695     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3170     Document Type: Article

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