Helicopter rotor design using a time-spectral and adjoint-based method

12th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, MAO

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Choi, Seongim ^a,c   Potsdam, Mark ^b   Lee, Kihwan ^a,c   Iaccarino, Gianluca ^a,c   Alonso, Juan J ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Army AMRDEC Development   (United States)

^c Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; HELICOPTERS; PLANFORMS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; TRANSONIC FLOW; UNSTEADY FLOW;

ADJOINT-BASED OPTIMIZATION; BLACK HAWK HELICOPTERS; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; FAST AND ACCURATE ALGORITHMS; HELICOPTER ROTOR DESIGNS; INITIAL CONFIGURATION; NON-LINEAR CONSTRAINTS; STEADY-STATE ANALYSIS;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 78049521953     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-5810     Document Type: Conference Paper

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