Rotor performance enhancement and vibration reduction in presence of dynamic stall using actively controlled flaps

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 338-350

  Liu, Li ^a   Friedman, Peretz P ^a   Kim, Insung ^a   Bernstein, Dennis S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; MATLAB;

ACTIVE FLAPS; ACTIVELY CONTROLLED FLAPS; ADVANCE RATIOS; CLOSED LOOPS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; DUAL FLAP CONFIGURATIONS; DYNAMIC STALL EFFECTS; DYNAMIC STALLS; EDGE FLAPS; FLIGHT CONDITIONS; HELICOPTER VIBRATIONS; HIGHER HARMONIC CONTROLS; INDIVIDUAL BLADE CONTROLS; NONLINEAR OPTIMIZER; OFFLINE; ON DYNAMICS; OPTIMAL LOCATIONS; PARAMETRIC STUDIES; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; POWER REDUCTIONS; ROTOR PERFORMANCES; ROTOR POWERS; ROTOR SHAFTS; ROTOR THRUSTS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SIMULTANEOUS REDUCTIONS; SPANWISE LOCATIONS; VIBRATION REDUCTIONS;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 57049161465     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/JAHS.53.338     Document Type: Article

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