Accession Number:

ADA210262

Title:

Computing Induced Velocity Perturbations due to a Helicopter Fuselage in a Free Stream

Descriptive Note:

Technical memo.

Corporate Author:

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION HAMPTON VA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER

Personal Author(s):

• Berry, John D.
• Althoff, Susan L.

Report Date:

1989-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

63.0

Abstract:

The velocity field of a representative helicopter fuselage in a free stream is computed. Perturbation velocities due to the fuselage are computed in a plane above the location of the helicopter rotor rotor removed. The velocity perturbations computed by a source-panel model of the fuselage are compared with experimental measurements taken with a laser velocimeter. Three paneled fuselage models are studied fuselage shape, fuselage shape with hub shape, and a body of revolution. The velocity perturbations computed for both fuselage shape models agree well with the measured velocity field except in the close vicinity of the rotor hub. In the hub region, without knowing the extent of separation, modeling of the effective source shape is difficult. The effects of the fuselage perturbations are not well-predicted with a simplified ellipsoid fuselage. The velocity perturbations due to the fuselage at the plane of the measurements have magnitudes of less than 8 percent of free-stream velocity. The velocity perturbations computed by the panel method are tabulated for the same locations at which previously reported rotor-inflow velocity measurements were made. Keywords Helicopter fuselage Rotor inflow Source panel Laser velocimeter.

Descriptors:

• *HELICOPTER ROTORS
• *FREE STREAM
• *FUSELAGES
• EXPERIMENTAL DATA
• SHAPE
• ELLIPSOIDS
• HELICOPTERS
• PERTURBATIONS
• AIRCRAFT MODELS
• SIMPLIFICATION
• AIRCRAFT PANELS
• LASER VELOCIMETERS
• BODIES OF REVOLUTION
• MEASUREMENT
• PROPELLER HUBS
• VELOCITY
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS

Subject Categories:

• Aerodynamics
• Helicopters

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE