Causes for discrepancies in ground effect analyses

Aeronautical Journal

Volumn 106, Issue 1066, 2002, Pages 653-668

  Barber, T J ^a   Leonardi, E ^a   Archer, R D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY;

GROUND EFFECT AERODYNAMICS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 0036939143     PISSN: 00019240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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