On vortex shedding from an airfoil in low-Reynolds-number flows

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 632, Issue , 2009, Pages 245-271

  Yarusevych, Serhiy ^a   Sullivan, Pierre E ^b   Kawall, John G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; ANGLE OF ATTACK; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; REYNOLDS EQUATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING; WAKES;

BOUNDARY-LAYER SEPARATION; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOW; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; SEPARATED SHEAR LAYERS; SHEAR-LAYER VORTICES; WAKE VORTEX SHEDDING;

SHEAR FLOW;

AERODYNAMICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VORTEX SHEDDING; WAKE;

EID: 69749095489     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009007058     Document Type: Article

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