Computational fluid dynamics-computational structural dynamics analysis of active control of helicopter rotor for performance improvement

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 0420041-04200414

  Jain, Rohit ^a   Yeo, Hyeonsoo ^b   Chopra, Inderjit ^c  

^a HYPERCOMP INC   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL; ACTIVE TWIST; ADVANCING SIDE; AERODYNAMIC LOADING; BLADE PITCH; BLADE TIP; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY; EDGE DEFLECTIONS; FLIGHT CONDITIONS; FORWARD FLIGHT; HIGH-SPEED; LEADING EDGE; MORPHING; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PILOT CONTROL; RETREATING SIDE; ROTOR PERFORMANCE; SIMULATION-BASED; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 78650347055     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/JAHS.55.042004     Document Type: Article

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