Rotorcraft Engineering Support

Rotorcraft projects include software for the design and testing of flight control systems. The Rotor Comprehensive Analysis System (RCAS) is a large, multidisciplinary computer software system designed to analyze the performance, stability and control, aeroelastic stability, loads and vibration, aerodynamics, and acoustical characteristics of rotorcraft.

The goals for this task are to provide the principal investigators at NASA Ames Research Center with engineering support, including validation and/or engineering analysis using RCAS, as well as to provide aeroacoustic research and support of experimental aerodynamics research in the Army’s 7- by 10-foot wind tunnel and other facilities.