Helicopter Rotor Flow Analysis Using Mapped Chebyshev Pseudospectral Method and Overset Mesh Topology

Figure 16

Contour plots of the blade surface pressure at Mach = 0.877.

(a) Blades and surface pressure contours at 9 mapped Chebyshev collocation points

(b) Blades and surface pressure contours reconstructed at 36 collocation points