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A Digital Simulation Of A Single Articulated Rotor Helicopter, Joseph William Klahs Jr.
A Digital Simulation Of A Single Articulated Rotor Helicopter, Joseph William Klahs Jr.
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"The investigation was concerned with the development of a complete digital computer simulation of a single articulated rotor helicopter. The simulation program was executed on an IBM model 360-50 digital computer.
The main rotor was analyzed by the consideration of a continuous rigid blade at six azimuth stations, while the airframe aerodynamics were treated in the conventional manner. The differential equations of motion of the airframe were solved in a step-wise fashion by approximating time dependent functions with cubic interpolation polynomials.
The study concluded that there was strong evidence that suggested the possibility of treating main rotor flapping as a …