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A comparison of interactional aerodynamics methods for a helicopter in low speed flight
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Berry, John D. Chaffin, Mark S. Letnikov, Victor Bavykina, Irena |
| Copyright Year | 1998 |
| Description | Recent advances in computing subsonic flow have been applied to helicopter configurations with various degrees of success. This paper is a comparison of two specific methods applied to a particularly challenging regime of helicopter flight, very low speeds, where the interaction of the rotor wake and the fuselage are most significant. Comparisons are made between different methods of predicting the interactional aerodynamics associated with a simple generic helicopter configuration. These comparisons are made using fuselage pressure data from a Mach-scaled powered model helicopter with a rotor diameter of approximately 3 meters. The data shown are for an advance ratio of 0.05 with a thrust coefficient of 0.0066. The results of this comparison show that in this type of complex flow both analytical techniques have regions where they are more accurate in matching the experimental data. |
| File Size | 1006279 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19980201050 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t7mp9zw2t |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1998-06-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aircraft Design, Testing And Performance Computational Fluid Dynamics Interactional Aerodynamics Helicopters Low Speed Rotors Powered Models Aerodynamic Configurations Subsonic Flow Predictions Wakes Fuselages Aircraft Configurations Mach Number Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
