On the structure of vortex breakdown on a delta wing

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 454, Issue 1968, 1998, Pages 89-110

  Kumar, Anand ^a  

^a CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation   (India)

Author keywords

Embedded conical grid; Euler equations; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345080033     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1998.0148     Document Type: Article

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