Active twist rotor blade modelling using particle-wake aerodynamics and geometrically exact beam structural dynamics

Journal of Fluids and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 651-668

  Cesnik, C E S ^a   Opoku, D G ^b   Nitzsche, F ^b   Cheng, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; HELICOPTERS; ROTORS;

AEROACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; TWIST ROTOR BLADE;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

AERODYNAMICS; AEROELASTICITY; FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; ROTOR; WAKE;

EID: 3042543538     PISSN: 08899746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2004.01.007     Document Type: Article

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