A wind-tunnel based study of helicopter tail rotor blade vortex interaction

Aeronautical Journal

Volumn 108, Issue 1083, 2004, Pages 237-244

  Coton, F N ^a   Galbraith, R A McD ^a   Wang, T ^b   Newman, S J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HELICOPTER ROTORS; PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); VORTEX FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

BLADE VORTEX INTERACTION (BVI); HELICOPTER TAIL ROTOR BLADES; NON-ROTATING BLADES;

AVIATION;

EID: 3042718070     PISSN: 00019240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001924000005091     Document Type: Article

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