Experimental study of governing parameters in pitching and plunging airfoil at low reynolds number

48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Baik, Yeon Sik ^a   Rausch, Jonathan M ^a   Bernal, Luis P ^a   Shyy, Wei ^a   Ol, Michael V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; ANGLE OF ATTACK; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

GOVERNING PARAMETERS; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; NON-DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; REDUCED FREQUENCY; STREAMLINE PATTERN; UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 77955919035     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-388     Document Type: Conference Paper

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