Planar symmetry in the unsteady wake of a sphere

AIAA Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 388-390

  Mittal, Rajat ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TOPOLOGY; UNSTEADY FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING; WAKES;

PLANAR SYMMETRY; UNIFORM FLOW;

SPHERES;

EID: 0033098450     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.722     Document Type: Note

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