On vortical flows shedding from a bluff body with a wavy trailing edge

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Cai, Jinsheng ^a   Chng, Loon Tat ^a   Tsai, Her Mann ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG COEFFICIENT; DRAG REDUCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX SHEDDING;

FLOW CHARAC-TERISTICS; FREQUENCY SELECTION; OPTIMUM CONFIGURATIONS; RECIRCULATION REGIONS; SINUSOIDAL DISTURBANCES; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS; VORTEX DISLOCATIONS; VORTEX SHEDDING PROCESS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 47149097464     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2931682     Document Type: Article

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