Contributions of particle image velocimetry to helicopter aerodynamics

M Raffel, A Bauknecht, M Ramasamy, GK Yamauchi… - AIAA Journal, 2017 - arc.aiaa.org
THE unsteadiness and complexity of the flowfields around helicopter rotor blades pose
significant challenges for present aerodynamic investigations, as illustrated in Fig. 1. The …

Unsteady aerodynamics of reverse flow dynamic stall on an oscillating blade section

AH Lind, AR Jones - Physics of Fluids, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Wind tunnel experiments were performed on a sinusoidally oscillating NACA 0012 blade
section in reverse flow. Time-resolved particle image velocimetry and unsteady surface …

An experimental study of static and oscillating rotor blade sections in reverse flow

AH Lind - 2015 - search.proquest.com
The rotorcraft community has a growing interest in the development of high-speed
helicopters to replace outdated fleets. One barrier to the design of such helicopters is the …

Extracting static pressure from velocimetry in vortical flows

J Merkl, N Hiremath, V Raghav… - Fluids …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The problem of extracting static pressure fields on and away from flow boundaries in
complex flows, is considered. Given the correct velocity field in steady incompressible flow …