Optimization of overset solution adaptive grids for hovering rotorcraft flows

AHS Aeromechanics Specialists Conference 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 704-721

  Holst, Terry L ^a   Pulliam, Thomas H ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION PROCESS; ADAPTIVE GRIDS; CARTESIAN GRID; GRID POINTS; NAVIER-STOKES FLOW SOLVER; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; VORTICAL FLOWS; VORTICAL WAKES;

AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HELICOPTER ROTORS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

FLOW FIELDS;

EID: 77953526525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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