A fast low-order computational approach is presented for estimating the aero-optic effect of the rotor tip vortex system on helicopter-borne optical systems. The approach employs prescribed-wake methods that have been developed by the helicopter design community to rapidly generate realistic approximations to the vortex-wake systems of helicopters in hover and forward flight. With the geometry of the vortex-wake system defined, an experimentally validated computational method that employs the isentropic assumption is then used to compute pressure, temperature, density, and index-of-refraction fields in the selected computational domain. Predictions determined using the computational approach for the spatially and temporally resolved aero-optic aberrations on an optical system mounted on a helicopter in hover and forward flight are presented.


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    Title :

    Computation of the Aero-Optical Environment of a Helicopter Using Prescribed-Wake Methods


    Contributors:
    Porter, Chris (author) / Rennie, Mark (author) / Jumper, Eric (author)

    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 53 , 3 ; 532-541


    Publication date :

    2015-01-05


    Size :

    10 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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