Aerodynamics of Gurney flaps on a wing in ground effect

AIAA Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 772-780

  Zerihan, Jonathan ^a,b   Zhang, Xin ^b  

^a British American Racing   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ANEMOMETERS; DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; RACING AUTOMOBILES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW; WINGS;

GURNEY FLAPS;

GROUND EFFECT;

EID: 0035337132     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.1396     Document Type: Article

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