Prediction of drag and lift using velocity and vorticity fields

Aeronautical Journal

Volumn 106, Issue 1064, 2002, Pages 547-554

  Zhu, G ^a   Bearman, P W ^a   Graham, J M R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; DRAG; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LIFT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY; VISCOUS FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

AEROFOIL; CLOSED FORM EQUATIONS; MACH NUMBER; VORTICITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0036809258     PISSN: 00019240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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