Actuator disc for helicopter rotors in the unstructured flow solver TAU

31st European Rotorcraft Forum

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Schweikhard, Roland ^a   Le Chuiton, Frédéric ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); THEOREM PROVING; VISCOUS FLOW;

ACTUATOR DISCS; DLR FLOWER CODE; FLOW SIMULATION; UNSTRUCTURED FLOW SOLVER;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 33746633021     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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