Effects of compressibility, pitch rate, and Reynolds number on unsteady incipient leading-edge boundary layer separation over a pitching airfoil

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 308, Issue , 1996, Pages 195-217

  Ghosh Choudhuri, P ^a   Knight, D D ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPRESSIBILITY; EFFECTS; LAMINAR FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SUBSONIC FLOW;

APPROXIMATE FACTORIZATION ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY LAYER SEPARATION; MACH NUMBER; PITCH RATE; PITCHING AIRFOIL; RECIRCULATING REGIONS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

AEROFOILS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; LAMINAR FLOW; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; PITCHING;

EID: 0030072002     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022112096001450     Document Type: Article

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