Pareto frontier method for multi-disciplinary optimization of helicopter rotors

American Helicopter Society International - AHS Specialists' Conference on Aeromechanics 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 898-917

  Collins, Kyle ^a   Bain, Jeremy ^a   Sankar, Lakshmi ^a   Egolf, T Alan ^b   Janakiram, Ram D ^c   Brentner, Ken ^d   Lopes, Leonard ^d  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION   (United States)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^d The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADE LOADING; BLADE SURFACE; CFD CODES; COMPUTER EXPERIMENT; DESIGN FRAMEWORKS; DESIGN VARIABLES; FORWARD FLIGHT; HIGH FIDELITY ANALYSIS; HOVER ANALYSIS; LOW FIDELITIES; LOW-FIDELITY MODELS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY OPTIMIZATIONS; NOISE PREDICTIONS; PARETO FRONTIERS; PARETO-OPTIMAL DESIGN; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; POSTERIORI; PRESCRIBED WAKE; ROTOR BLADES; ROTOR SYSTEMS; ROTORCRAFT ANALYSIS; SIMULATION RESULT; SURROGATE MODEL; TIP GEOMETRY;

AEROACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HELICOPTER ROTORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

DESIGN;

EID: 73349084340     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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