Seminar: Recent Work on Rotorcraft Fuselage-Wake Interactions

Berend G. van der Wall, PhD, German Aerospace Center (DLR)

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Aerospace Research Center
Aerospace Research Center
Room 100
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Columbus, OH 43235
United States

Abstract

This presentation will provide an overview of recent work at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR, the German Aerospace Center) on helicopter aerodynamics, including modeling of fuselage-rotor interference, and rotor vortex interactions.

 

About the speaker

Berend G. van der Wall is Senior Scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), where he has served for more than 30 years, after obtaining his engineer diploma from TU Braunschweig in 1986. His education includes a master’s degree from the University of Maryland in 1991 and a PhD from TU Braunschweig in 1999. His subjects of work combine the theory (development of DLR’s S4 rotor simulation code) with about 25 experiments of large-scale rotor and helicopter models in the Large Low-Speed Facility of the German-Dutch Wind Tunnel in the last 30 years, mostly with international cooperation. He headed the US/German and Korean/German MoU’s on Rotorcraft Aeromechanics from 2006-2012, and the DLR/Onera Research Field 5 “The Innovative Rotorcraft” since 2002. Since 2007, he has served as lecturer at TU Braunschweig for Helicopter Aerodynamics and Rotor Dynamics and became honorary professor there in 2014.

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