Measurements of a rotor flow in ground effect and visualisation of the brown-out phenomenon

Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 1212-1230

  Nathan, Nita D ^a   Green, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; SPEED; VISUALIZATION;

ADVANCE RATIO; DUST CLOUDS; EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATIONS; FINE POWDERS; FORWARD SPEED; PARTICLE-IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; VISUALISATION; WIDE-AREA;

GROUND EFFECT;

EID: 50049122902     PISSN: 15522938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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