Performance predictions of the NREL phase VI combined experiment rotor using a free-vortex wake model

Collection of Technical Papers - 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 4544-4564

  Gupta, Sandeep ^a,b   Leishman, J Gordon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE-VORTEX WAKE METHOD (FVM); SPANWISE DISTRIBUTIONS; TURBINE THRUST;

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; NASA; ROTORS; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT; WIND TUNNELS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 34250842649     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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