Two aspects of the use of full- And partial-span gurney flaps

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1745-1748

  Nikolic, Vojin R ^a,b  

^a MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAKES;

DRAG CHARACTERISTICS; LIFT COEFFICIENTS; PARTIAL SPAN GURNEY FLAPS; TRAILING WAKE VORTICES;

WINGS;

EID: 36348992699     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.29136     Document Type: Article

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