Experimental study of three-dimensional vortex structures in translating and rotating plates

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 329-339

  Kim, D ^a   Gharib, M ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFOCUSING DIGITAL PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HIGH ANGLE OF ATTACK; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; LEADING EDGE; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; LIFT FORCE; MOMENT THEORY; SPANWISE FLOW; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; TIP VORTEX; TRANSPORT PROCESS; UNSTEADY FORCE GENERATION; VORTEX FORMATION; VORTEX STRUCTURES; VORTICITY DISTRIBUTION; WAKE REGION;

AERODYNAMICS; ANIMALS; ASPECT RATIO; FLOW VISUALIZATION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTICITY;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 77953809689     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-010-0872-6     Document Type: Article

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