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NASA NTRS2015

A Simple Analytical Fuselage-Induced Velocity Model for Comprehensive Rotor Codes

A simple analytical model to account for fuselage-induced velocities at rotor blade elements and at rotor wake nodes is described. The method is applied to three different fuselage configurations. Results obtained with a comprehensive rotor code show the fuselage effect on rotor trim controls, comparing the isolated rotor with inclusion of the fuselage for the same trim. This is compared to a simple analytical estimate of the fuselage effect using blade element/momentum theory. It is found that in forward flight the lateral control is mainly affected by fuselage effects. Rotor thrust can be varied by the presence of the fuselage, depending on its angle of attack, and the fuselage influence generally increases with flight speed.

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NASA NTRS2015

Fuselage-Induced Velocity Model for LRTA, RTA, and HART Fuselages

In order to make the aerodynamic fuselage-rotor interference effects available to comprehensive rotor codes, a simple analytical model of the fuselage-induced velocities within the volume of rotor blade operation above the fuselage is developed here for the following bodies used in wind tunnel experiments: the Large Rotor Test Apparatus (LRTA), the Rotor Test Apparatus (RTA), and the Higher Harmonic Control Aeroacoustic Rotor Test (HART).While the first two are used in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) at NASA Ames, California, the third one is used by DLR in the large low-speed facility of the German-Dutch wind tunnel in the Netherlands. The fuselage-induced velocity model is based on parameter identification of isolated fuselage-induced velocity data (computed by means of computational fluid dynamics, CFD) and is intended to be generic enough to be used for real helicopter fuselages as well. The accuracies obtained in reproducing the CFD data show a remaining average error of less or equal 5 of the peak-to-peak induced velocity range, which is considered sufficient for comprehensive code analysis.

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