Commercial aircraft exterior cleaning optimization

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 284-290

  Longmuir, Mark ^a,b   Ahmed, N A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Qantas Jet Base Building S AB1 6   (Australia)

^c School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT; DETERIORATION; FRICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKIN FRICTION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WASHING;

AERODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY; AIRCRAFT WASHING; AIRLINE OPERATORS; COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT; ROUGHENED SURFACES; SCIENTIFIC REASONING; SKIN-FRICTION DRAG; SMOOTH REFERENCE;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 60049091156     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.38472     Document Type: Article

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