Visibility enhancement in rotorwash clouds

43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit - Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 15377-15389

  Ryerson, Charles C ^a,c   Haehnel, Robert B ^a,c   Koenig, George G ^a,d   Moulton, Marvin A ^b,e  

^a Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b US Army Aviation and Missile Command   (United States)

^c Ice Engrg Res Div   (United States)

^d Geophysical Sciences Branch   (United States)

^e Aviation Engineering Directorate   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUST; HELICOPTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING;

FLOW IMPINGING; PARTICLE ENTRAINMENT; ROTORWASH CLOUDS; SENSOR SIGNALS;

CLOUDS;

EID: 30744433339     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-263     Document Type: Conference Paper

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