Hover performance correlation for Full-Scale and model-scale coaxial rotors

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 0320051-03200514

  Lim, Joon W ^a   McAlister, Kenneth W ^a   Johnson, Wayne ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOIL DESIGN; COAXIAL ROTOR; FREE-VORTEX WAKE; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; KEY PARAMETERS; MEASURED DATA; PERFORMANCE CORRELATION; PERFORMANCE DATA; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; POWER CHARACTERISTIC; ROTOR DIAMETER; ROTOR WAKE; SCALING EFFECTS; U.S. ARMY;

AIRFOILS; GROUND EFFECT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WAKES;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 69949126532     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/JAHS.54.032005     Document Type: Article

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