Unsteady separation from the leading edge of a thin airfoil

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 704-714

  Degani, A T ^a,b   Li, Q ^a,c   Walker, J D A ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROFOILS; SEPARATION; UNSTEADY;

EID: 0029656419     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.868856     Document Type: Article

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