CFD-CSD analysis of active control of helicopter rotor for performance improvement

Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 2467-2486

  Jain, Rohit ^a   Szema, Kuo Yen ^a   Munipalli, Ramakanth ^a   Yeo, Hyeonsoo ^b   Chopra, Inderjit ^c  

^a HYPERCOMP INC   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL; ADVANCING SIDE; AERODYNAMIC LOADING; BLADE ANGLE; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY; FLIGHT CONDITIONS; FORWARD FLIGHT; HIGH-SPEED; LEADING EDGE; MORPHING; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PILOT CONTROL; ROTOR PERFORMANCE; SIMULATION-BASED; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; STRUCTURAL SIMULATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); DRAG; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 70350514332     PISSN: 15522938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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