An efficient vorticity confinement based lifting surface method for rotor wake computations

National Aerospace Laboratory NLR - 32nd European Rotorcraft Forum, ERF 2006

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 601-617

  Steinhoff, John ^a   Wenren, Yonghu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Flow Analysis Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Euler equations; Rotorcraft; Vorticity confinement; Wake; Weak solutions

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; EULER EQUATIONS; HELICOPTER ROTORS; WAKES;

ROTORCRAFT; VORTICITY CONFINEMENT; WEAK SOLUTIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 34547581488     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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