A coupled unstructured-adaptive cartesian cfd approach for hover prediction

Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 2612-2629

  Wissink, Andrew ^a   Potsdam, Mark ^a   Sankaran, Venkateswaran ^a   Sitaraman, Jayanarayanan ^b   Yang, Zhi ^b   Mavriplis, Dimitri ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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EID: 84884399056     PISSN: 15522938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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