Developments and challenges in rotorcraft aerodynamics

38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Caradonna, Francis X ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY; WAKES;

ALTERNATE APPROACHES; DISCRETIZATIONS; MODEL APPROACH; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; NUMERICAL DISSIPATION; ROTORCRAFT AERODYNAMICS; UNSOLVED PROBLEMS; VORTICITY CONFINEMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 85088721804     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2000-109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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