An experimental study of the laminar flow separation on a low-Reynolds-number airfoil

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 0511011-05110111

  Hu, Hui ^a   Yang, Zifeng ^a  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

(1 1 0) SURFACE; ADVERSE PRESSURE GRADIENTS; ANGLES OF ATTACK; EVOLUTION (CO); EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW FIELD MEASUREMENTS; HELMHOLTZ; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYERS; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER (LRN); PARTICLE-IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV); PIV MEASUREMENTS; REYNOLDS (CO); SURFACE PRESSURE DISTRIBUTIONS; SURFACE PRESSURES; TRANSIENT BEHAVIORS; TURBULENCE TRANSITION; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER (TBL); UNSTEADY FLOW STRUCTURES; UPPER SURFACE; VORTEX STRUCTURES;

EID: 46749125433     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2907416     Document Type: Article

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