High resolution computational investigation of trimmed coaxial rotor aerodynamics in hover

AHS Specialists Conference on Aerodynamics 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 605-628

  Lakshminarayan, Vinod K ^a   Baeder, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; FLOW FIELDS; MESH GENERATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; VORTEX FLOW;

COAXIAL ROTOR; COAXIAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; CONDITION; HIGH RESOLUTION; POWER; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER STOKES SOLVERS; ROTOR AERODYNAMICS; ROTOR WAKE;

WAKES;

EID: 58149526756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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