The flowfield of a coaxial counter-rotating rotor in hover was measured using particle image velocimetry. The goal of the measurements was to investigate the flow features of coaxial rotors, including interaction between the rotors, and to measure inflow over the rotor radius and azimuth. The phase-resolved measurements were performed at several azimuthal index angles behind the rotor blades, with 500 instantaneous flow realizations per azimuth. Axial velocity profiles extracted from the phase-averaged flowfields exhibited the effect of bound circulation associated with blade passage, the trailed vortex sheet, and the effect of the blade tip vortex. Tip vortex characteristics were extracted from the measurements and were shown to compare well with semi-empirical models in most cases. The measured inflow was captured well by blade element momentum theory when the mutually induced velocities were accounted for. The lower rotor was found to behave more like an isolated single rotor, whereas tip vortices from the upper rotor convected faster radially inward and downstream than the lower rotor tip vortices. Upper and lower rotor tip vortices exhibited similar core radii ranging from 12 to 18% of the rotor blade chord, and they grew at a similar rate. However, this vortex growth rate was different from that of an isolated single rotor.


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    Title :

    Phase-Resolved Flowfield Measurements of a Coaxial Counter-Rotating Rotor in Hover


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Journal of Aircraft ; 60 , 6 ; 1986-1997


    Publication date :

    2023-05-18


    Size :

    12 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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