E3S Web of Conferences (Jan 2023)

Modelling of Flow Characteristics of Main Rotor with Elliptical Root Section in Hover Mode

  • Kusyumov Sergey,
  • Stepanov Robert,
  • Kusyumov Alexander,
  • Mirgazov Ruslan,
  • Kritsky Boris

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202344606002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 446
p. 06002

Abstract

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The modelling of a helicopter main rotor flow field in hover regime is being considered. The aerodynamic and aeroacoustics characteristics of two rotor models with different blade root geometries are compared. The first rotor has the shape of NACA0012 air foil in the root section of the blades. The second rotor model has an elliptic air foil in the root of the rotor blade. The amplitude and temporal characteristics of the aeroacoustics emission in near-field are investigated using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).