Recent advances in the embedded-wake approach to Hover performance prediction

AHS International 4th Decennial Specialists' Conference on Aeromechanics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 813-829

  Bhagwat, Mahendra ^a   Moulton, Marvin A ^b   Caradonna, Francis X ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b US Army AMRDEC Development   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROMECHANICS; BIOT-SAVART LAW; FLOW PREDICTION; ROTORCRAFTS;

AIR CUSHION VEHICLES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LIFT; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; ROTORS; TRAJECTORIES; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WAKES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 2942541282     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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