Proposed mechanism for time lag of vortex breakdown location in unsteady flows

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 733-736

  Gursul, Ismet ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DELTA WING AIRCRAFT; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; UNSTEADY FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

PHASE LAG; PITCHING WING; TIME LAG; VORTEX BREAKDOWN LOCATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0034226218     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2661     Document Type: Article

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