Airfoil drag prediction and decomposition

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 675-681

  Chao, D D ^a   Van Dam, C P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SUBSONIC AERODYNAMICS; TRANSONIC AERODYNAMICS; VISCOUS FLOW;

VISCOUS DRAG; WAVE DRAG;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 0032648079     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2510     Document Type: Article

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