Navier-Stokes analysis of lift-enhancing tabs on multi-element airfoils

Aircraft Design

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 145-158

  Carrannanto, Paul G ^a   Storms, Bruce L ^b   Ross, James C ^c   Cummings, Russell M ^d  

^a FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

^b Aerospace Computing Inc   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; GEOMETRY; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LIFT; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PRESSURE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOSITY;

DYNAMIC PRESSURE; LIFT ENHANCING TABS; MACH NUMBER; MULTI ELEMENT AIRFOILS;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 0032149275     PISSN: 13698869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-8869(98)00014-7     Document Type: Article

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