Airplane trailing vortices and their control

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 6, Issue 4-5 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 487-499

  Crouch, Jeffrey ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active control; Floquet theory; Instability; Transient growth; Vortex breakup; Vortex encounters; Vortices

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144454105     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2005.05.006     Document Type: Short Survey

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