Experiments were conducted to document the wake geometry and interactional effects between a hovering rotor and a body representing a simplified helicopter fuselage. The wide-field shadowgraph technique was used to visualize the rotor wake vortices and to obtain quantitative information on the wake trajectories, with and without the presence of the body. Particular attention was paid to visualizing and quantifying the wake geometry during the direct impingement of tip vortices on the body surface. The rotor performance with and without the fuselage is also discussed.
A study of rotor wake development and wake/body interactions in hover
AHS International Specialists'' Meeting on Rotorcraft Basic Research ; 1991 ; Atlanta, GA, United States
1991-01-01
Conference paper
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English
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