Interdependence of diffusion and straining of helicopter blade tip vortices

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1014-1024

  Ramasamy, Manikandan ^a,b   Leishman, J Gordon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Glenn L Martin Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; HELICOPTER ROTORS; KINEMATICS; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRAIN RATE; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY;

FILAMENT STRAIN; FLOW DENSITY; FREESTREAM VELOCITY; KINEMATIC VISCOSITY;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 7544243097     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.3364     Document Type: Article

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