Wake-structure formation of a heaving two-dimensional elliptic airfoil

AIAA Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1571-1583

  Lua, K B ^a,c   Lim, T T ^a,c   Yeo, K S ^a,c   Oo, G Y ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

^c Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID MECHANICS; HARMONIC GENERATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; VISCOUS FLOW; WAKES;

HARMONIC HEAVING MOTION; THRUST GENERATION; WAKE STRUCTURES;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 34547556507     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.25310     Document Type: Article

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