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Applications: Helicopter Aerodynamics

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In this chapter a number of applications of the PIV technique will be described, contributed by leading PIV experts from different research establishments and universities worldwide. Primarily, the objective of presenting these applications is to show how the PIV technique has spread out to the most different research areas. However, it is of even higher importance to gain the reader access to a wide variety of ideas for PIV measurements by presenting many different applications in fundamental or industrial research. For each experiment the most important parameters of the object under investigation, of the illumination and recording setup, etc. will be given. These data together with the hints and tricks briefly described and the references to further, more detailed, literature may be useful for the reader when trying to solve problems of his own application.

An overview of the Digital Content to applications on helicopter aerodynamics can be found at [DC13.1].

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  1. Institut für Aerodynamik und Strömungstechnik, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Göttingen, Germany

    Markus Raffel & Jürgen Kompenhans

  2. Institut für Antriebstechnik, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Köln, Germany

    Christian E. Willert

  3. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Fulvio Scarano

  4. Institut für Strömungsmechanik und Aerodynamik, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Neubiberg, Germany

    Christian J. Kähler

  5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Birck Nanotech Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

    Steven T. Wereley

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Raffel, M., Willert, C.E., Scarano, F., Kähler, C.J., Wereley, S.T., Kompenhans, J. (2018). Applications: Helicopter Aerodynamics. In: Particle Image Velocimetry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68852-7_13

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