PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF HOVERING UH-60A ROTOR BLADE

UH-60A 로터 블레이드의 정지비행 성능해석

  • 박영민 (한국항공우주연구원, 세부계통팀) ;
  • 장병희 (한국항공우주연구원, KHP 사업관리팀) ;
  • 정진덕 (한국항공우주연구원, 세부계통팀)
  • Published : 2007.10.26

Abstract

The present paper describes the results of performance analysis for UH-60A rotor blade in hover. For the numerical simulations, commercial CFD software, FLUENT was used with Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model. The flow solver was based on node based scheme and second order spatial accuracy options was used for simulations. For the enhancement of wake capturing capability, high resolution grid was used around tip vortex region. Granting that somewhat over prediction of thrust was observed near blade tip region, performance was well correlated with experimental data within 3% accuracy in the operating region. Finally it was shown that the present flow solver can be used for preliminary performance analysis tool for hovering helicopter rotor blades.

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