Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement (SAMR) algorithms applied to rotor wake capturing

Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 2015-2031

  Vasilescu, Roxana ^a   Yeshala, Nandita ^b   Sankar, Laskhmi N ^b   Egolf, T Alan ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAKES;

GRID CONTROL; GRID QUALITY ADAPTION; ROTOR FLOW COMPUTATIONS; STRUCTURED ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT (SAMR);

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 34547879302     PISSN: 15522938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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