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Numerical Simulation of Flow around Rigid Rotor in Forward Flight

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The study is devoted to the numerical simulation of flow around the rigid helicopter main rotor in forward flight based on the averaged Navier—Stokes equations in a noninertial reference frame. The calculations are performed using the in-house code NOISEtte, whose distinctive feature is the use of schemes with edge-based reconstruction of variables on unstructured mixed-element mesh, together with the commercial ANSYS CFX software package. The numerically obtained aerodynamic characteristics of the main rotor are compared with the data of physical experiment.

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  1. Here, the unstructured mixed-element mesh is a mesh consisting of the following elements: hexahedrons, triangular prisms, tetrahedrons, quadrangular pyramids.

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  1. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 125047, Moscow, Russia

    I. V. Abalakin, V. G. Bobkov, T. K. Kozubskaya & V. A. Vershkov

  2. Zhukovski Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI), 140180, Zhukovsky, Russia

    V. A. Vershkov, B. S. Kritsky & R. M. Mirgazov

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Abalakin, I.V., Bobkov, V.G., Kozubskaya, T.K. et al. Numerical Simulation of Flow around Rigid Rotor in Forward Flight. Fluid Dyn 55, 534–544 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0015462820040011

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