Coupled cfd/multibody analysis of nrel unsteady aerodynamic experiment phase vi rotor

49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Masarati, Pierangelo ^a   Sitaraman, Jayanarayanan ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

AERODYNAMIC EXPERIMENTS; COUPLED FLUID-STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; COUPLED SOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL CAMPAIGN; FLOW CONDITION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; TOWER MODELING; UNSTEADY AERODYNAMICS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84883434802     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2011-153     Document Type: Conference Paper

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