Active/passive vibration reduction and performance enhancement of helicopter rotors at high advance ratios

Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 2337-2351

  Glaz, Bryan ^a   Friedmann, Peretz P ^a   Bagnoud, François Xavier ^a   Liu, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROLS; BLADE DESIGNS; CLOSED LOOPS; DESIGN SPACES; DYNAMIC STALL; EFFICIENT GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; FORWARD FLIGHT; GLOBAL SEARCH; HIGH SPEEDS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; ROTOR POWER; SURROGATE-BASED OPTIMIZATION; TRADE-OFF DESIGN; TRAILING-EDGE FLAPS; VIBRATION LEVELS; VIBRATION REDUCTIONS;

COMMERCE; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL THEORY; HELICOPTER ROTORS; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; MILITARY HELICOPTERS; OPTIMIZATION; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); VIBRATORS;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 50049101399     PISSN: 15522938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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