High-resolution computational investigation of trimmed coaxial rotor aerodynamics in hover

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADE THICKNESS; CHARACTERISTIC SIGNATURE; COAXIAL ROTOR; COAXIAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; FASTER RATES; GLOBAL QUANTITIES; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOADING EFFECTS; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER STOKES SOLVERS; ROTOR SYSTEMS; ROTOR WAKE; THRUST LEVELS; TRIMMING PROCEDURES; VORTEX-VORTEX INTERACTION;

AERODYNAMICS; FLOW FIELDS; WAKES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 71549134935     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/JAHS.54.042008     Document Type: Article

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