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GENERALDEFINITIONS

Rotorradius: Rotordiskarea: Numberofblades: Bladechord: Bladearea:

Solidity: Forrectangularbladeswithe=0 Ang.Velocity: Tipvelocity:

(bladeeccentricity)both
RotorThrust: RotorPower:
or definitionsareequivalent
Thrustcoefficient: Powercoefficient:

DiskLoading: PowerLoading:

Inflowcoefficient: with (>0inaclimband<0inadescent)and 0

MOMENTUMTHEORY(IDEAL).HOVERFLIGHT

MOMENTUMTHEORY(IDEAL).AXIALCLIMB

THRUSTGIVEN

POWERGIVEN

MOMENTUMTHEORY(IDEAL).AXIALDESCENT(VALIDONLYFOR 2 )

THRUSTGIVEN

NONIDEALITIES Inducedpowerfactor: . .Ingeneral:

. .
Tiplossfactor:

(Inahover)
Inducedpowercoefficient: Profilepowercoefficient: FigureofMerit:

AXIALDESCENTWITH 2 0(MOMENTUMTHEORYNOTAPPLICABLE)

( IdealInducedvelocityinahover)( . Inducedpowerfactor)
Youngsapproximation: for . 0and for 1.5

Curvefit(NACATN3238): . . . .

AUTOROTATION

FromYoungsapproximatedmodel:

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MOMENTUMTHEORY(IDEAL).FORWARDFLIGHT.

THRUSTGIVEN

For : if :

BLADEELEMENTTHEORY.AXIALFLIGHT

Localliftcoeff. with and Local drag coeff.

Linealtwist: Idealtwist: Optimumrotor: (subscript standsfortip)

HELICOPTERPERFORMANCE.AXIALFLIGHT

Mainrotorpower:

Requiredpower: Engine power:

HOVERINGROUNDEFFECT

For mainrotor power with

. .

AUTOROTATIONINAXIALFLIGHT

Charact. section: Rotor dynamics:

PERFORMANCEINFORWARDFLIGHT

Mainrotorpower for 1 : .

PERFORMANCEINTAKEOFF : Critical height : power in hover :emergency power

and velocity and required power Horiz. Flight at2nd segment

by dynamic balanceat

MISCELLANEOUS

Newton Raphson iterativeprocedure to solve an equation :

.
ISA: . K . kgm h 11000 . .

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