Aeroelastic and acoustic analysis for active twist rotors

31st European Rotorcraft Forum

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Thepvongs, Smith ^a   Cesnik, Carlos E S ^a   Voutsinas, Spyros G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AERODYNAMICS; DATA ACQUISITION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VORTEX FLOW;

ACTIVE TWIST ROTORS; BLADE SECTION NORMAL FORCE; FLIGHT CONDITION; PARTICLE-WAKE;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 33746639674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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