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A Transonic Panel Method for Helicopter Flows

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Since the early 1960’s, boundary element methods1 have been an indispensable tool for analyzing the flow field and shaping the surfaces surrounded by flows. After Hess & Smith [17] introduced the panel methods into fluid mechanics, many different methods have been developed [31, 32, 41]; surveys of the existing methods are given by Wagner [45, 46] Hoeijmakers [18] and Hess [16]. With the increasing use of computers, lifting surface theories [43, 44], of which some had been very sophisticated until that time, increasingly lost importance. The scope of application for boundary element methods, however, was extended to include supersonic and unsteady flows.

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Wagner, S., Röttgermann, A. (1997). A Transonic Panel Method for Helicopter Flows. In: Wendland, W.L. (eds) Boundary Element Topics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60791-2_18

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