Reduction of fuselage form drag by vortex flows

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 501-506

  Wortman, Andrzej ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIO EQUIPMENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

FORM DRAG; PITCH ANGLES; VORTEX GENERATOR;

FUSELAGES;

EID: 0033132466     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2484     Document Type: Article

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