Aerodynamic performance analysis of a supercritical airfoil in the helicopter main rotor
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Abstract
Helicopters can be considered as any-terrain vehicles, as they can take off and land at any location. The aerodynamic characteristics of helicopters are more complicated than those of fixed-wing aircraft. The rotor is the source of lift and thrust for helicopters. The complex aerodynamic characteristics of helicopters are due to their rotational frame and variations in the velocity and pressure throughout the blades. Moreover, the airfoil undergoes phase changes because half of the phase exhibits a trailing edge toward the flow. In this study, four isolated helicopter rotor blades were analyzed using ANSYS Fluent in terms of flow in a static domain under non-rotating conditions. Supercritical airfoils used in high-speed aircraft have been found to be incredibly useful in the transonic region. They increased the critical and drag divergence Mach numbers. Incorporating supercritical airfoils in helicopter rotor blades ensures suitable flow characteristics and more than 50% efficiency compared to those of the HH02 blade in a stationary frame. Analyses were conducted for HH02 and NASA SC(2)-0714 airfoils with Mach numbers of 0.3, 0.4, and 0.5 without rotation. The post-processing results prove that the NASA SC(2)-0714 airfoil rotor achieves a better aerodynamic performance than the HH02 airfoil rotor.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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