Vortical patterns in the wake of an oscillating airfoil

AIAA Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 1989, Pages 1200-1205

  Koochesfahani, Manoochehr M ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS--WAKES; FLUID DYNAMICS;

OSCILLATING AIRFOILS; VORTEX FLOWS; WAKE VORTICES;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 0024732317     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.10246     Document Type: Article

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