Simulation of unsteady rotor-fuselage aerodynamic interaction using unstructured adaptive meshes

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 141-149

  Nam, Hwa Jin ^a   Park, Young Min ^a   Kwon, Oh Joon ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL EDGE-COLLAPSING; MACH NUMBER; SLIDING MESH ALGORITHM; SPRING ANALOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PARALLEL EULER FLOW SOLVER; UNSTEADY ROTOR-FUSELAGE AERODYNAMIC INTERACTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUSELAGES; HELICOPTER ROTORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WIND TUNNELS;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 33744530556     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/JAHS.51.141     Document Type: Article

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