Flow analysis over and behind a wing with different winglet shapes

AIAA Paper

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 8329-8338

  Soltani, Mohammad Reza ^a   Ghorbanian, Kaveh ^a   Nazarinia, Mehdi ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; DRAG; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS; WINGS;

FLOW ANALYSIS; STATIC SURFACE PRESSURE; WING SPANS; WINGLETS;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 2942724510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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