Span efficiencies of wings at low Reynolds numbers

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 120-128

  Spedding, G R ^a,b,c   McArthur, J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Departmentt of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

^c AEROVIRONMENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; EFFICIENCY; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

AIRFOIL SECTION; ANALYTICAL THEORY; IDEALIZED MODELS; INVISCID THEORY; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; MODERATE REYNOLDS NUMBERS; NUMERICAL VALUES; SEPARATION POINTS;

WINGS;

EID: 75749107860     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.44247     Document Type: Article

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