Low-Order Modeling of Stacked Rotor Performance in Hover

Author:

Johnson Chloe1ORCID,Sirohi Jayant1

Affiliation:

1. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712

Abstract

Coaxial, corotating (stacked) rotors have shown improved performance compared to conventional rotors, but the optimum configuration is highly sensitive to the rotor parameters. This paper reports the development of a low-order model, blade interaction prediction (BLIP), to efficiently predict the thrust and power of closely spaced rotor blades and quantify the effects of rotor geometry on total and individual stacked rotor performance. BLIP couples a vortex panel method and blade element momentum theory to combine the effects of bound circulation and rotor inflow. A cascade effect in the two-dimensional vortex panel method was implemented to incorporate the effect of airfoils rotating in a circle. Validation was performed with measurements of a 1.108-m-radius fixed-pitch stacked rotor with variable axial and azimuthal spacing, and excellent correlation was observed. It was found that small azimuthal angles and axial spacings are most effective in varying total thrust. The variation of thrust and power with azimuthal spacing was found to be a result of bound circulation, while the variation with axial spacing is due to rotor inflow interactions.

Funder

Uber Technologies Inc.

Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence

Publisher

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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