Modelling a helicopter rotor's response to wake encounters

Aeronautical Journal

Volumn 108, Issue 1079, 2004, Pages 15-26

  Whitehouse, G R ^a   Brown, R E ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRPORTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; EXTRAPOLATION; FUSELAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT;

AIRCRAFT WAKE; BLADE FLAPPING FREQUENCY;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 1242329352     PISSN: 00019240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001924000004954     Document Type: Article

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