| A computer program for calculating the unsteady, three-dimensional transonic potential flow about isolated rotor blades has been developed. This method calculates the nearfield aerodynamics of arbitrarily shaped rotor blades by solving a conservative form of the unsteady full potential equation on a body-fitted grid. The application of this code to rotor flow problems has been extended through the development of improved blade dynamics and farfield wake modeling, and incorporation of boundary layer modeling in the flow solution. Evaluation of the full potential solver applied to rotor problems and evaluations of the blade motion and boundary layer works are presented. |
