An unsteady multiblock multigrid scheme for lifting forward flight rotor simulation

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 973-984

  Allen, C B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forward flight; Grid generation; Numerical simulation; Rotor flows; Unsteady flows

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SHAFTS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WAKES;

MULTI-BLADED LIFTING ROTORS;

ROTORS;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; ROTOR; VORTEX;

EID: 3242674469     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.711     Document Type: Article

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