Experimental analysis of the flow field over a novel owl based airfoil

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 975-989

  Klän, Stephan ^a   Bachmann, Thomas ^a   Klaas, Michael ^a   Wagner, Hermann ^a   Schröder, Wolfgang ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLES OF ATTACKS; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; FLOW FEATURES; MODIFIED SURFACES; PARTICLE-IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; RECTANGULAR WINGS; SUCTION SIDES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SURFACES; TRANSITIONAL SEPARATIONS; WING MODELS;

AIRFOILS; ANGLE OF ATTACK; FARM BUILDINGS; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW PATTERNS; GAS DYNAMICS; GAS TURBINES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SIZE SEPARATION;

EID: 67349211747     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-008-0600-7     Document Type: Article

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