The recent growing interest in urban air mobility (UAM) worldwide has led to the demand for
physical analyses of the aerodynamic performance and aeroacoustic characteristics of …

Within this study, the capability of the actuator line method to simulate the noise of a high-lift
distributed propulsion system is investigated. Therefore, the blades of three tractor …

With the pursuit of extending the flight envelopes of helicopters toward higher cruise speed,
helicopter manufacturers increasingly have come up with nonconventional configurations in …

High-order spatial schemes, which effectively treat the dissipative characteristics of
computational fluid dynamics solvers, are known to assure the precise prediction of rotorcraft …

In recent years, helicopter manufacturers have developed an increasing number of
nonconventional configurations in order to extend flight envelopes of helicopters towards …

RECENTLY, an additional thrust source or lifting device is used in a compound rotorcraft for
improving cruise performance and facilitating unique flight capabilities such as vertical …

This paper presents the development and validation of a toolchain for high fidelity analysis
of compound rotorcraft. An automatic geometry composition and grid generation framework …

This paper focuses on the experimental evaluation of the rotor/propeller interactions for
hybrid compound configurations. Experiments are conducted in the ONERA L2 large size …

In this paper, a computational fluid dynamics simulation method is developed to study the
influence of the rotor overlap** azimuth on the aerodynamic performance of compound …

The main goal of this study is to create a robust control system that could guide or replace
pilots in the tracking of the commanded velocity and attitude in multimodal maneuver, while …