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New Aerodynamic Design of the Fenestron for Improved Performance

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Since the first Gazelle flight in 1968, Aerospatiale has developed the fenestron as an alternate solution to the conventional tail rotor for 1 ight or medium he! icopters '-'eighing less than 6 tons. This concept has widely evidenced its advantages on about 1100 Gazelle and 235 Dauphin he I icopters equipped With this fenestron and totalizing more than 2 million flight hours, 'Hithout any major accident. The paper first recalls the general definition of the fenestron and its advantages for civi I or mi I itary applications. Recent research has shown new opportunities for 1mproving the aerodynamic efficiency of this fenestron. A detailed airflow analysis through the fenestron has recently been achieved With extensive model and full scale tests on the tail rotor bench in hover. The research program was sponsored by the French Government Agencies DRET and STPA. This paper surveys the experimental technique and the flow measurements. It also presents the correlations that have been made with blade element theory as well as a more advanced analysis developed by METRAFLU and derived from a radial equi I ibrium code in use for compressors. The tests have authorized more thorough flow investigations which have shown potential benefits in recuperating the rotational energy. This has led to design stator blades located behind the rotor, inside the diffuser. Tests of this device have shown large improvements in the fenestron's figure of merit and maximum thrust, for a given rotor blade solidity. Furthermore, improving the diffuser's performance., the stator blades permit reducing the diffuser's length and thus the fenestron's width with dr
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Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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