Hovering of a rigid pyramid in an oscillatory airflow

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 650, Issue , 2010, Pages 415-425

  Weathers, Annie ^a   Folie, Brendan ^b   Liu, Bin ^c   Childress, Stephen ^c   Zhang, Jun ^a,c  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID MECHANICS;

BODY MASS; HOLLOW PYRAMIDS; QUASI-STEADY THEORY; RIGID BODY;

ENGINEERING;

AIRFLOW; ASYMMETRY; OSCILLATING FLOW; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952426639     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010000583     Document Type: Article

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