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Critical Aspects in the Aerodynamics of Helicopter Blade-Vortex Interaction: A Numerical Study Using LES
Proceedings of the Aerospace Sciences Meeting (2010)
  • Marcel Ilie, Georgia Southern University
Abstract
Numerical investigations of helicopter blade-vortex mechanism of interaction are performed using large eddy simulation (LES). The simulations were performed for a Reynolds number, Re = 1.3 × 10^6, based on the chord, c, of the airfoil (NACA0012). Computations are carried out for two different types of blade-vortex interactions, concerning single and respectively two vortices blade interaction. It was observed that for single vortex-blade interaction, the blade-vortex interaction becomes less significant with the increase of vertical miss distance. Larger amplitudes of aerodynamic coefficients were observed for the case of two vortices-blade interaction when compared with the single vortex blade interactions.
Keywords
  • Aerodynamics,
  • Helicopter blade-vortex interaction,
  • LES
Publication Date
January 4, 2010
Publisher
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
ISBN
978-1-60086-959-4
DOI
10.2514/6.2010-677
Citation Information
Marcel Ilie. "Critical Aspects in the Aerodynamics of Helicopter Blade-Vortex Interaction: A Numerical Study Using LES" Orlando, FLProceedings of the Aerospace Sciences Meeting (2010)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/marcel-ilie/26/