Analysis of Ship Airwakes Using Modal Decomposition [PDF]
The three-dimensional, unsteady, and turbulent airwake produced by a scaled model of a generic Navy ship (Simple Frigate Shape No. 2) was investigated in a low-speed wind tunnel.
Zhu, Nicholas
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Forces on Obstacles in Rotor Wake – A GARTEUR Action Group [PDF]
The paper describes the objectives and the structure of the GARTEUR Action Group HC/AG-22 project which deals with the basic research about the forces acting on obstacles when immersed in rotor wakes.
Bakker, Richard +13 more
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Virtual Engineering in Skills Acquisition and Development in the Career of the Rotorcraft Engineer [PDF]
As the complexity of engineering systems grows, engineers increasingly need to be able to use a range of tools in order to reduce the costs, and associated risks, as they work in the various phases of the engineering life-cycle.
Cameron, N +3 more
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Investigation of mixed element hybrid grid-based CFD methods for rotorcraft flow analysis [PDF]
Accurate first-principles flow prediction is essential to the design and development of rotorcraft, and while current numerical analysis tools can, in theory, model the complete flow field, in practice the accuracy of these tools is limited by various ...
Boschitsch, Alexander H. +4 more
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Contributions to the Understanding of Ship Airwakes Using Advanced Flow Diagnostic Techniques [PDF]
The objective of this research was to better characterize the complex, three dimensional, unsteady aerodynamic flows produced by the superstructure of a ship, which is referred to as an airwake.
Seth, Dhuree
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Experimental and numerical investigation on a trimaran airwake, geometry modification. [PDF]
Vakilabadi KA, Ghafari HR, Ghassemi H.
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The status of military specifications with regard to atmospheric turbulence [PDF]
The features of atmospheric disturbances that are significant to aircraft flying qualities are discussed. Next follows a survey of proposed models. Lastly, there is a discussion of the content and application of the model contained in the current flying ...
Heffley, Robert K., Moorhouse, David J.
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Visual augmentation of deck-landing-ability improves helicopter ship landing decisions. [PDF]
Thomas M +4 more
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A New Actuator Surface Model with Improved Wake Model for CFD Simulations of Rotorcraft [PDF]
Simulations of rotorcraft operating in unsteady flow-fields, manoeuvring flight, or with complex rotor configurations pose a significant challenge to current simulation methods.
Barakos, Geogre +3 more
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Real-Time Monocular Vision System for UAV Autonomous Landing in Outdoor Low-Illumination Environments. [PDF]
Lin S, Jin L, Chen Z.
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