On physical mechanisms in two- and three-dimensional separations

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

Volumn 358, Issue 1777, 2000, Pages 3091-3111

  Smith, F T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary layers; Fluid dynamics; Horseshoe vortices; Rotary blades; Roughness; Separations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346676620     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0698     Document Type: Article

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