The impact upon aircraft airworthiness design from encounters with discrete vortices

Collection of Technical Papers - 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 2768-2786

  Brown, Anthony P ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE VORTICES; OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; ROLL ACCELERATIONS; WAKE VORTEX TRAILING PAIRS;

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; FLOW FIELDS; MACHINE DESIGN; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; WAKES;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 34250892544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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