Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 2020 In this paper, a comprehensive computational modeling study of the unsteady aerodynamic environment around a warship with a helicopter is performed.
Yu Lu +5 more
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Investigation of the rotor–obstacle aerodynamic interaction in hovering flight [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, a comprehensive experimental survey of the aerodynamic interaction of a hovering rotor in the proximity of a ground obstacle is described, taking advantage of multiple experimental techniques.
Giuni, Michea +2 more
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Entropy-based detached-eddy simulation of the airwake over a simple frigate shape
Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2015 The wind past the ship superstructure produces an unsteady turbulent airwake which has a significant effect on aircraft performance and consequently pilot workload during ship landing process.
Zhao Rui +3 more
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Structure of a Ship Airwake at Multiple Scales
AIAA Journal, 2020 The airwake of a tumblehome ship geometry in uniform wind is investigated experimentally through dye visualization, particle image velocimetry, and laser Doppler anemometry, and numerically using a...
Gregory M. Dooley +4 more
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Impact Anlysis of Bow Flap on LHA-1 Ship Airwake
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 The sharp 90°corner of bow found on American Tarawa class general amphibious assault ship LHA-1 will produce large separated region in the airwake over the ship, and the turbulence in the separation region seriously affects the operation safety of the ...
Wang Jinling +3 more
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A Virtual Engineering Approach to the Ship-Helicopter Dynamic Interface; a decade of modelling and simulation research at The University of Liverpool [PDF]
, 2016 This paper reviews some of the research that has been carried out at the University of Liverpool where the Flight Science and Technology Research Group has developed its Heliflight-R full-motion research simulator to create a simulation environment for ...
Hodge, SJ +3 more
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Simulation study of helicopter ship landing procedures incoporating measured flow data [PDF]
, 2005 The aim of this article is to investigate the use of inverse simulation to help identify those regions of a ship's flight deck which provide the safest locations for landing a rotorcraft in various atmospheric conditions.
Coton, F.N. +2 more
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Airwake Characteristics of NATO-Generic Destroyer: A Numerical Study [PDF]
Journal of Applied Fluid MechanicsThis paper presents a numerical investigation of the air wake around a generic surface combatant ship called NATO-Generic Destroyer (NATO-GD). Naval surface combatants with flight decks must be designed taking aerodynamic concerns into account.
S. Sari, A. Dogrul, S. Bayraktar
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Real Time Wake Computations using Lattice Boltzmann Method on Many Integrated Core Processors [PDF]
, 2016 This paper puts forward an efficient Lattice Boltzmann method for use as a wake simulator suitable for real-time environments. The method is limited to low speed incompressible flow but is very efficient and can be used to compute flows “on the fly ...
Woodgate, Mark A. +2 more
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An Active Flow Control over the Ship Deck for Helicopter Shipboard Operations
AerospaceThis paper presents an active flow control of ship airwake over the deck to improve the safety of helicopter shipboard operations in various angles of wind over deck (WOD).
Yi Ye, Renliang Chen, Honglei Ji
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