Evaluation of isolated fuselage and rotor-fuselage interaction using computational fluid dynamics

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-17

  Renaud, Thomas ^a   O'Brien, David ^b   Smith, Marilyn ^c   Potsdam, Mark ^d  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b US Army Aviation   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d US Army AMRDEC Development   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUSELAGES; HELICOPTER ROTORS; MACH NUMBER; TURBULENCE MODELS;

GRID RESOLUTION; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES (RANS) FLOW SOLVER; ROTOR-FUSELAGE INTERACTION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 39149104365     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/JAHS.53.3     Document Type: Article

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