High-resolution computational and experimental study of rotary-wing tip vortex formation

AIAA Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2593-2602

  Duraisamy, Karthikeyan ^a,b   Ramasamy, Manikandan ^a,b   Baeder, James D ^a,b   Leishman, J Gordon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT STRUCTURES; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; TERTIARY VORTICES;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT THEORY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 36749028766     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.26575     Document Type: Article

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