Wake dynamics and rotor - fuselage aerodynamic interactions

Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 945-962

  Kenyon, Adam R ^a   Brown, Richard E ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC INTERACTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; HANDLING QUALITY; ROTOR WAKE; SMOKE VISUALISATION; UNSTEADY LOADS; WAKE DYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; FUSELAGES; HELICOPTER ROTORS; HELICOPTERS; NASA; WAKES;

LOADING;

EID: 84884373872     PISSN: 15522938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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