Design of two-dimensional wind tunnel contractions

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1977, Pages 371-377

  Morel, Thomas ^a  

^a GM Research Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WIND TUNNELS;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 0017504730     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3448764     Document Type: Article

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