Unstructured mesh CFD aerodynamic analysis of the NREL phase VI rotor

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Potsdam, Mark A ^a   Mavriplis, Dimitri J ^b  

^a US Army AMRDEC Development   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DATA VISUALIZATION; MESH GENERATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TWO PHASE FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; AERODYNAMIC ANALYSIS; NAVIER-STOKES COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; SURFACE PRESSURES; UNSTEADY AERODYNAMICS; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; UNSTRUCTURED SURFACE MESH; WIND TURBINE AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 78549259410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-1221     Document Type: Conference Paper

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