TY - GEN
T1 - Three rotor hub flow prediction workshops (2016-2020) - What did we learn & What's next ?
AU - Schmitz, Sven
AU - Tierney, Charles
AU - Reich, David
AU - Jaffa, Nicholas
AU - Centolanza, Louis R.
AU - Thomas, Mathew L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was partially funded by the U.S. Army's National Rotorcraft Technology Center program under Other Transaction number W15QKN-10-9-0003 between the Vertical Lift Consortium, Inc. and the Government under Agreement No. W911W6-17-2-0003. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation thereon. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center or the U.S Government.
Funding Information:
This research was partially funded by the U.S. Army’s National Rotorcraft Technology Center program under Other Transaction number W15QKN-10-9-0003 between the Vertical Lift Consortium, Inc. and the Government under Agreement No. W911W6-17-2-0003. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation thereon. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center or the U.S Government.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The 'Rotor Hub Flow Prediction Workshops' have been productive collaborations between experimental and computational efforts in the important area of high-Reynolds number model testing of rotor hubs and associated complex interactional aerodynamics in the long-age wake as relevant to current and future rotorcraft. As such the hub flow workshops have joined the ranks of past successful collaborations such as the UH-60 Airloads and HART-II workshops. This paper begins by describing the basic physics of rotor hub flows and gives a brief summary of recent water-tunnel test campaigns. Following, the evolution of the hub flow workshops is summarized, with emphasis on the productive interactions between experimentalists and computational participants. A compilation of computational blind comparison results against measured data for all three workshops thus far is presented. Challenges associated with uncertainties in both experiments and computations and their effect on quantitative comparisons are discussed. In particular, emphasis is given to the 'Lessons Learned' on both sides and an outlook into remaining challenges and next research steps in the area of rotor hub flows is provided.
AB - The 'Rotor Hub Flow Prediction Workshops' have been productive collaborations between experimental and computational efforts in the important area of high-Reynolds number model testing of rotor hubs and associated complex interactional aerodynamics in the long-age wake as relevant to current and future rotorcraft. As such the hub flow workshops have joined the ranks of past successful collaborations such as the UH-60 Airloads and HART-II workshops. This paper begins by describing the basic physics of rotor hub flows and gives a brief summary of recent water-tunnel test campaigns. Following, the evolution of the hub flow workshops is summarized, with emphasis on the productive interactions between experimentalists and computational participants. A compilation of computational blind comparison results against measured data for all three workshops thus far is presented. Challenges associated with uncertainties in both experiments and computations and their effect on quantitative comparisons are discussed. In particular, emphasis is given to the 'Lessons Learned' on both sides and an outlook into remaining challenges and next research steps in the area of rotor hub flows is provided.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - 77th Annual Vertical Flight Society Forum and Technology Display, FORUM 2021: The Future of Vertical Flight
BT - 77th Annual Vertical Flight Society Forum and Technology Display, FORUM 2021
PB - Vertical Flight Society
T2 - 77th Annual Vertical Flight Society Forum and Technology Display: The Future of Vertical Flight, FORUM 2021
Y2 - 10 May 2021 through 14 May 2021
ER -