A review of computational techniques for rotor wake modeling

38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Hariharan, Nathan ^a   Sankar, Lakshmi N ^b  

^a CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; FORWARD FLIGHT; HIGH-ORDER; NAVIER STOKES; NEAR FIELDS; ROTOR WAKE;

WAKES;

EID: 85088719730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2000-114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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