Effects of wing-tip strakes on a sheared-tip wing

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1055-1062

  Traub, Lance W ^a   Galls, Samuel F ^a   Rediniotis, Othon ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; DRAG; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FORCE MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

SHEARED-TIP WING; WING TIP STRAKES;

WINGS;

EID: 0033326512     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2549     Document Type: Article

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