Parallel simulation of unsteady hovering rotor wakes

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 632-649

  Allen, C B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multiblock; Multigrid; Numerical simulation; Parallel processing; Rotor flows; Unsteady CFD; Wake capturing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; ROTORS; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

HOVERING ROTOR WAKE; MULTIBLOCK GRID GENERATOR; ROTATIONAL FREQUENCY; ROTOR FLOWS; WAKE CAPTURING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; ROTORS; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

EID: 33750322756     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1723     Document Type: Article

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