Time-accurate modeling of rotor wakes using a free-vortex wake method

18th Applied Aerodynamics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Bhagwat, Mahendra J ^a   Leishman, J Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; DISPERSION (WAVES); GEOMETRY; LINEARIZATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; VELOCITY; WAKES;

FLIGHT CONDITIONS; FREE VORTEX WAKE METHODS; LINEARIZED ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR DISPERSION; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SECOND-ORDER ACCURACY; TIME-MARCHING ALGORITHMS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 85080398334     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2000-4120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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