The structure and development of a counter-rotating wing-tip vortex pair

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 332, Issue , 1997, Pages 71-104

  Devenport, William J ^a   Zsoldos, Jeffrey S ^a   Vogel, Christine M ^a  

^a Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; LAMINAR FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAKES;

HOT WIRE PROBE; VORTEX CORE;

VORTEX FLOW;

TURBULENCE; VORTICES; WINGS;

EID: 0031080791     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022112096003795     Document Type: Article

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