Correlation of helicopter rotor tip vortex measurements

AIAA journal

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 301-308

  Bhagwat, Mahendra J ^a   Gordon Leishman, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CORRELATION METHODS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY; VORTEX FLOW;

BLADE VORTEX INTERACTION; FREE VORTEX METHODOLOGY;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0343962667     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.957     Document Type: Article

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