Aerodynamics of Gurney flaps on a single-element high-lift wing

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 295-301

  Jeffrey, David ^a,c   Zhang, Xin ^a   Hurst, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c British American Racing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFOILS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PRESSURE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING; WINGS;

GURNEY FLAPS; LASER DOPPLER ANEMOMETRY; SMOKE VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0033894883     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2593     Document Type: Article

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