Coherent structures in an airfoil boundary layer and wake at low Reynolds numbers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Yarusevych, Serhiy ^a   Sullivan, Pierre E ^a   Kawall, John G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; LAMINAR FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS;

KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYER SEPARATION; ROLL-UP VORTICES;

AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFOILS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; LAMINAR FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 33745602792     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2187069     Document Type: Article

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