Flow separation control on a race car wing with vortex gnerators in ground effect

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 131, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1211021-1211028

  Kuya, Yuichi ^a   Takeda, Kenji ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a   Beeton, Scott ^a   Pandaleon, Ted ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY; CO-ROTATING VORTICES; COUNTER ROTATING; COUNTER-ROTATING VORTICES; FLOW SEPARATION CONTROL; LARGE-SCALE VORTICES; SUB-BOUNDARY; SUCTION SURFACES; VORTEX GENERATORS; WING IN GROUND EFFECT;

AERODYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS; AERODYNAMIC DRAG; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLOW SEPARATION; GROUND EFFECT; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; ROTATION; TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 77955286807     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4000420     Document Type: Article

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