Aeroelastic analysis of helicopter rotor blades on deformable chimera grids

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 577-584

  Pomin, Hubert ^a,b   Wagner, Siegfried ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b Inst for Aerodynamics/Gasdynamics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

FLUX VECTORS; ROTOR BLADES; TIME LEVEL;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 3042792928     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.11484     Document Type: Article

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