Propeller blade shape of optimization for efficiency improvement

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 407-419

  Cho, Jinsoo ^a   Lee, Seung Chul ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL PANELS; VORTEX FLOW;

RIGID HELICAL WAKE MODELS; VORTEX LATTICE METHODS;

AIRCRAFT PROPELLERS;

AERODYNAMICS; EFFICIENCY; OPTIMIZATION; PROPELLER;

EID: 0345020346     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7930(97)00035-2     Document Type: Article

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