Rotorcraft downwash flow field study to understand the aerodynamics of helicopter brownout

American Helicopter Society International - AHS Southwest Region Specialists Meeting on Next Generation Vertical Lift Technologies 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 528-554

  Wadcock, Alan J ^a   Ewing, Lindsay A ^a   Solis, Eduardo ^b   Potsdam, Mark ^c   Rajagopalan, Ganesh ^d  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Monterey Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c US Army AMRDEC Development   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CFD ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLIGHT CONTROL; FLOW FIELD CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH FIDELITY; NAVIER-STOKES COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; PARTICLE ENTRAINMENT; SAND PARTICLES;

AERODYNAMICS; AIR ENTRAINMENT; FLOW FIELDS; HELICOPTERS; LANDING; MILITARY OPERATIONS; WAKES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 70449817441     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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