Direct and large-eddy simulations of merging in corotating vortex system

AIAA Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 157-167

  Nybelen, L ^a,b   Paoli, R ^a,b  

^a European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG REDUCTION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MERGING; PLANNING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRATEGIC PLANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VORTICITY; WAKES;

AIRCRAFT WAKES; AZIMUTHAL VELOCITIES; COROTATING VORTICES; ELLIPTICAL INSTABILITIES; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS; LINEAR REGIMES; SHORT WAVES; SYMMETRICAL VORTICES; VORTEX CORES; WAKE CONTROLS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 58149402018     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.38026     Document Type: Article

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