Falling cards

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 540, Issue , 2005, Pages 393-425

  Jones, Marvin A ^a   Shelley, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; AERODYNAMICS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

INVISCID FLUID; TRAILING VORTEX WAKE; UNSTEADY SEPARATED FLOW;

UNSTEADY FLOW;

FLAT PLATE; FLOW SEPARATION; FLUID MECHANICS; INVISCID FLUID; VORTEX SHEDDING; VORTEX SHEET;

EID: 26944487909     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112005005859     Document Type: Article

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