Accuracy of the induced velocity from helicoidal vortices using straight-line segmentation

AIAA Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-40

  Gupta, Sandeep ^a,b   Leishman, J Gordon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Glenn L Martin Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SMOKE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND TURBINES;

DISCRETIZATION; HELICAL VORTEX; HELICOIDAL STRUCTURE; SMOKE INJECTION;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 12744253543     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.1213     Document Type: Article

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