Improvement on the Wake-Rotor Interaction Analysis Code by use of a Wake Decay Model.

The wake-rotor interaction analysis code, which was originally developed for the inviscid flow case by the author (1983), was improved by introducing a newly proposed wake decay model. This model utilizes the Reichardt's semi-empirical correlations for the wake decay behind the cylinder. From a comparison between experiments and the predictions obtained by original and modified versions of the code, it is found that the incorporation of that model could make the analysis code to provide better results.