Characteristics of a plunging airfoil at zero freestream velocity

AIAA journal

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 531-534

  Lai, Joseph C S ^a   Platzer, Max F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS); INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); VORTEX FLOW;

PLUNGING AIRFOILS; ZERO FREESTREAM VELOCITY;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 0035280418     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.1340     Document Type: Article

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