The AVINOR aeroelastic simulation code and its application to reduced vibration composite rotor blade design

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Glaz, Bryan ^a   Friedmann, Peretz P ^a   Liu, Li ^a   Kumar, Devesh ^a   Cesnik, Carlos E S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROELASTICITY; AVIATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); DESIGN AIDS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FLIGHT ENVELOPES; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

AERO-ELASTIC SIMULATIONS; BLADE-VORTEX INTERACTION; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL MODELS; ENTIRE FLIGHT ENVELOPE; GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR; HELICOPTER ROTOR BLADES; SURROGATE-BASED OPTIMIZATION;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 84855620403     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-2601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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