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A numerical investigation of helicopter flow fields including thermal effects of exhaust hot gases
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Gürsoy, Zeynep Ece
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This thesis investigates the flow field of a twin-engine, medium lift utility helicopter numerically. The effects of the exhaust hot gases emerging from the engines are accounted for in the numerical study. The commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software ANSYS Fluent is employed for the computations. While the effects of engines are included in the computations through simple inlet and outlet boundary conditions, the main and tail rotors are simulated by the Virtual Blade Model in a time-averaged fashion. Forward flight at four different advance ratios and hover in ground effect are studied. The temperature distribution around the tail boom is compared to available flight test data. Good agreement with the flight test data is observed.
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Aeronautical engineering.
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18893
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Z. E. Gürsoy, “A numerical investigation of helicopter flow fields including thermal effects of exhaust hot gases,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2009.
