VLES of flow field around helicopter blades in hover

Author: Jasmin Avila

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A Very Large Eddy Simulation (VLES) of a flow field around helicopter blades in hover. Delayed wall behavior together with k-omega SST and coherent structure model were used in this simulation. The computation was wall-resolved (y+ = 1) and the overall size of the mesh is about 7,000,000 cells. 

By: Dr. Ryan Kelly and Dr. Aleksandar Jemcov