A model for the symmetry breaking of the reverse Bénard-von Kármán vortex street produced by a flapping foil

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 622, Issue , 2009, Pages 23-32

  Godoy Diana, Ramiro ^a   Marais, Catherine ^a   Aider, Jean Luc ^a   Wesfreid, José Eduardo ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ASPECT RATIO; PHASE VELOCITY; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTICITY; WAKES;

AVERAGE VELOCITY; COUNTER-ROTATING VORTICES; DEFLECTION ANGLES; FISH LIKE SWIMMING; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; VORTICITY FIELD;

VORTEX FLOW;

ADVECTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DEFLECTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW MODELING; FLOW VELOCITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; JET FLOW; NUMERICAL METHOD; VORTEX FLOW; WAKE;

EID: 65649113246     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008005727     Document Type: Article

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