Experiments on the unsteady nature of vortex breakdown over delta wings

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 262-272

  Menke, M ^a   Yang, H ^a   Gursul, I ^a,b  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW VISUALIZATION; LIFT; OSCILLATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY; WINGS;

DELTA WINGS; VORTEX BREAKDOWN;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0032592744     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003480050351     Document Type: Article

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