Alleviation of Vertical Tail Buffeting of F/A-18 Aircraft

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 322-330

  Sheta, Essam F ^a,b  

^a CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Aviation Engineering Directorate   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ALGORITHMS; BUFFETING; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

ALLEVIATION; STRUCTURAL VIBRATIONS; VERTICAL TAIL BUFFETING;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 2342596443     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.9327     Document Type: Article

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