Computational investigation of Gurney flap effects on rotors in forward flight

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1957-1964

  Min, Byung Young ^a,b   Sankar, Lakshmi N ^a,b   Rajmohan, Nischint ^a,b   Prasad, J V R ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; AIRCRAFT;

AUTOROTATION; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; FORWARD FLIGHT; NAVIER STOKES; PEAK-TO-PEAK; REDUCING VIBRATIONS; SCALED MODELING;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 73849133611     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.41918     Document Type: Article

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