UNSTEADY AERODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF HELICOPTER ROTOR BLADES USING DIAGONAL IMPLICIT HARMONIC BALANCE METHOD

Abstract

In this paper, diagonal implicit harmonic balance method with overset grid technique is applied to analyze helicopter rotor blade flow in hover and forward flight condition. The chimera grid need interpolation time with sub-grid and background grid in moving problem such as forward flight on every time step. Present method is available enough to reduce the grid module interpolation time. In order to demonstrate present method, Caradonna & Tung's and AH-1G rotor blades are used and the results are compared to other researchers' result and experimental data.