Novel eulerian vorticity transport wake module for rotorcraft flow analysis

Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 2032-2047

  Whitehouse, Glen R ^a   Boschitsch, Alexander H ^a   Quackenbush, Todd R ^a   Wachspress, Daniel A ^a   Brown, Richard E ^b  

^a Continuum Dynamics Inc ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW FIELDS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; VISCOUS FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY; WAKES;

EULERIAN WAKE MODULE; LAGRANGIAN VORTEX; ROTORCRAFT FLOW ANALYSIS; VORTICITY TRANSPORT MODEL;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 34547889941     PISSN: 15522938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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