Understanding ducted-rotor antitorque and directional control characteristics part I: Steady-state simulation

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1042-1053

  Alpman, Emre ^a,c   Long, Lyle N ^a,c   Kothmann, Bruce D ^b,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^c 229 Hammond Building ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CORRELATION METHODS; FUSELAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; ROTORS;

EULER EQUATIONS; FLUID DENSITY; FREESTREAM VELOCITY; MACH NUMBER;

TORQUE CONTROL;

EID: 7544232512     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.3701     Document Type: Article

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