Incremental potential flow based membrane wing element

AIAA Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 782-788

  Smith, Rick ^a,b   Shyy, Wei ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b E ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; MODELLING-MATHEMATICA; WINGS;

EID: 0030792742     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.7447     Document Type: Article

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