EROS - a common European Euler code for the analysis of the helicopter rotor flowfield

Progress in Aerospace Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 437-485

  Renzoni, Piergiovanni ^a   D'Alascio, Alessandro ^a   Kroll, Norbert ^b   Peshkin, Dave ^c   Hounjet, Michael H L ^d   Boniface, Jean Christophe ^e   Vigevano, Luigi ^f   Allen, Christian B ^j   Badcock, Ken ^j   Mottura, Lorenzo ^g   Schöll, Eberhard ^h   Kokkalis, Anastasios ⁱ  

^a ITALIAN AEROSPACE RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d NLR   (Netherlands)

^e ONERA   (France)

^f POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^g Agusta SpA   (Italy)

^h EUROCOPTER DEUTSCHLAND GMBH   (France)

ⁱ GKN Aerospace   (United States)

^j NONE

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; DEFORMATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNATURES; EULER CODES; VIBRATORY LOADS;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0342520845     PISSN: 03760421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-0421(00)00006-3     Document Type: Review

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