Abstract
The interference calculation is essential to the flight dynamic analysis especially for multi-rotors configurations. To analyze the flight dynamic characteristics of a small tandem helicopter precisely, a vortex method is utilized to obtain the aerodynamic interaction between the tandem rotors and the fuselage. Specially, the unsteady air loads and the wake of the rotors are developed using a lifting surface method and the viscous vortex particle theory, respectively, and the fuselage is modeled by the panel method to simulate the blocking effect on the rotors. Then the aerodynamic interference of the small tandem helicopter is analyzed under the conditions of different vertical or horizontal distance between the rear and front rotors. Subsequently, to save calculation time during flight dynamic analysis, a hybrid optimization trimming method combining the equilibrium optimizer and the improved delta method is proposed. At last, the flight dynamic analysis for the small tandem helicopter with different configurations are carried out and the results indicate that configuration in which the rear rotor is located higher than the front rotor and the one with larger longitudinal distance between tandem rotors are beneficial to increase the stability in lateral and longitudinal directions, respectively.
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