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Feasibility Study: Helicopter Blade Tip Vortices Positions Measured in Free Flight by Means of Stereoscopic Background Oriented Schlieren Method (BOS)
Sat, 2015-01-10 12:58 — ecadmin
F. Klinge, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Aerodynamik und Strömungstechnik, Göttingen, Germany
M. Hecklau, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Aerodynamik und Strömungstechnik, Göttingen, Germany
J. Kompenhans, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Aerodynamik und Strömungstechnik, Göttingen, Germany
U. Göhmann, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Aerodynamik und Strömungstechnik, Göttingen, Germany
Abstract
A free-flight full-scale out-door test to localize blade tip vortices of a helicopter in space was performed by means of the stereoscopic Background Oriented Schlieren method (BOS) at the DLR site and research flight center in Braunschweig. The objective was a quantitative feasibility study of the BOS measurement technique for spatial vortex investigations. The results show that it is possible to detect and to measure the position of three-dimensional vortex structures of a free-flying MBB Bo 105 helicopter in space.
Date:
Wed, 2006-06-14