Calculation of rotor blade-vortex interaction airloads using a multiple-trailer free-wake model

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1123-1130

  Lim, Joon W ^a   Yu, Yung H ^a   Johnson, Wayne ^b  

^a US Army Aviation and Missile Command   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW INTERACTIONS; HELICOPTER ROTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

BLADE-VORTEX INTERACTIONS; MULTIPLE TRAILER FREE WAKE MODEL; ROTOR AIRLOAD PREDICTION;

AERODYNAMIC LOADS;

EID: 0346503130     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.7200     Document Type: Article

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